Researchers continue to make leaps in photonics and quantum science with potentially transformative impacts. A novel compact optical frequency comb device developed at MIT enhances chemical identification capabilities with high stability and broad bandwidth. Advances in on-chip, all-dielectric metasurfaces embed topological exceptional points, enabling improved control of light-matter interactions without metallic losses. Graphene fluorescent proteins have been engineered as coherent quantum spin qubits functioning within living cells. Noncommutative metasurfaces have been pioneered to manipulate quantum path entanglement. These technological breakthroughs pave the way for ultrahigh precision in photonic computing, sensing, and quantum information science.