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Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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1. Controversial Lemont Housing Development Up For Public Hearing (patch.com) — Lemont residents are set to pack Village Hall tonight as the planning and zoning commission holds a key public hearing on the proposed Belmont Estates multi-family housing development at Bell Road and Archer Avenue. Supporters say the Lemont-based developer’s cottage-style units would help local families downsize or house aging parents nearby, while opponents worry about traffic, school crowding, zoning changes, and neighborhood character before the project advances to the Village Board.
2. Improving Next-Generation Aircraft with Supercomputing and AI (techbriefs.com) — Cutting-edge aircraft research is happening right in Lemont, where Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer is teaming with University of Colorado experts to rethink how airplane tails are designed. By simulating turbulent airflow with AI, they hope to shrink tail size, cut drag and fuel use, and reduce costly wind-tunnel testing, all from the powerful systems housed at Argonne National Laboratory.
3. Girls soccer: Geneva's dream season ends in supersectional (dailyherald.com) — Lemont’s girls soccer team has advanced to the Class 2A state tournament after a 3-0 win over Geneva in the Kankakee supersectional. The squad, now 23-1-1, heads to Naperville on Friday to face Crystal Lake Central in a state semifinal. Geneva’s strong postseason run ended despite several earlier playoff wins.
4. Microsoft's quantum chip got an upgrade. Critics are still skeptical (sciencenews.org) — Lemont gets a brief spotlight as Argonne National Laboratory researchers weigh in on Microsoft’s newly upgraded quantum chip, which aims to dramatically cut computing errors. The piece explains how the chip’s design changes may improve qubit stability, while also detailing why many physicists remain unconvinced that Microsoft has truly achieved robust topological qubits.
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