Approach to Advanced Composite Material Technology to Realize Weight Reduction of Future Aircraft toward Decarbonization of Air Transportation - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

In this episode of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium and Lou Whiteman and Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser debate:The future of smart homes, flying cars, and AI wearables. Whether big tech's latest innovations can move the needle. The sharp sell-off in AI infrastructure stocks. The financial pressures facing the AI industry. Stocks on the radar. To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center. When you're ready to invest, check out this top 10 list of stocks to buy. A full transcript is below. This podcast was recorded on Oct. 16, 2026. Travis Hoium: Flying cars are finally here, and Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing starts now. Welcome to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. I'm Travis Hoium. I'm joined today by Lou Whiteman and Jason Moser. Guys, we got a couple of big product announcements, with Apple releasing the HomeView, and we have a new Roadster, or at least we're in 2028 from Tesla, that can fly. I want you guys' thoughts on this, but the context that I want this in is our history with technology.

After a full season of daily carry and trail use, the Leatherman Wave Alpha with MagnaCut is our favorite for everyday carry Using the Leatherman Wave Alpha to add sealant to a mountain bike tire. Courtesy Chris Meehan

In the classical Universe, the arrow of time flies one way – but in the quantum realm, where classical physics breaks down, could even time's direction be ripe for the tweaking? The ability to manipulate the direction of quantum evolution could offer new ways to process information – with implications especially for quantum computing. And it may be within reach. Korean physicists have demonstrated a qubit whose processes can be run backward in time… and the deliciously ironic twist is that they had to go back in time to find it. In a new preprint, physicist Tai Hyun Yoon of Korea University developed a theory describing what he calls a quantum vacuum-seeded single-photon time qubit – and showed that an experiment he and colleagues conducted in 2018 for an entirely different purpose had inadvertently already shown it in action. The notion of a time qubit is a relatively recent one, arising in a preprint penned by physicist Yakov Bloch of Tel Aviv University, uploaded to arXiv in November 2025. It's not actually a qubit that can travel backward in time; rather, as Bloch explains it, it's a quantum system that can evolve in two opposite temporal directions at once.

Stainless steel is widely used for its corrosion resistance, but it is not invincible. In environments containing chloride ions, such as seawater, pitting corrosion can occur. These pits often start at tiny particles called inclusions embedded in the steel. Titanium (Ti) is commonly added to stainless steel to improve pitting corrosion resistance by converting easily dissolved manganese sulfide (MnS) into more stable Ti-containing sulfides. However, Ti addition does not completely prevent pitting, and the electrochemical properties of the various inclusions formed in Ti-containing stainless steel—and which of them can trigger pitting—have remained unclear.

Here’s your NYT Strands hint for today, plus the spangram and all of today’s Strands answers for puzzle No. 966 on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. Today’s Strands theme is “Something to build on.”