WASHINGTON, April 11 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on April 10, 2026, by Alicia Chavy, vice president at Beacon Global Strategies, a national security fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a board member of the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum: * * * The Quantum Era is Now Moving beyond the lab: quantum is rewriting global security. * Quantum computing is often framed as a distant breakthrough: powerful, transformative -- and perpe  more

BRISBANE, Australia, April 13 -- The University of Queensland posted the following news: * * * Leafy vegetables identified as potential metal mining tools * Leafy vegetables could be used to extract toxic metals from contaminated soil for use in medical technologies and energy projects. Key points * Certain plants are 'hyperaccumulators' that can extract toxic yet valuable metals from contaminated soils through their roots and shoots * Brassicaceae species such as kale, cabbage, broc  more