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Polymath, an educational sandbox game, has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to combine gamified mechanics with adaptive math lessons for children. The platform allows kids to explore a virtual island, complete math questions to progress, and offers personalized learning through an adaptive algorithm, aiming to make math more engaging for young learners.
Two University of Exeter physics students set a potential world record by levitating a soap bubble for 84 minutes using an acoustic levitation machine. The experiment, part of a final-year project on bubble oscillation modes,...
Earth likely passed through a dense interstellar gas cloud about 10 million years ago, compressing the Sun's heliosphere and increasing Earth's exposure to cosmic rays. Evidence includes a 70% spike in beryllium-10 production in...
Chinese scientists have created an ultra-hard 'super diamond' in the lab, 40% harder than natural diamonds. The hexagonal crystal structure, known as lonsdaleite, was synthesized from graphite under high pressure and heat,...
Australian company Extraterrestrial Power has developed new space-grade solar cells up to ten times cheaper than current options. The ultra-thin cells can be mass-produced like terrestrial solar cells while maintaining efficiency...
The new electronic fabric emits bright light and clear sound while stretching to twice its size, maintaining performance when deformed and achieving 319 cd/m² brightness and 73.7 dB sound output at 200% stretch.
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Scientists have found new evidence that quasicrystals, materials with non-repeating patterns, are influenced by hidden 4D structures. Advanced microscopy revealed electromagnetic wave patterns on quasicrystal surfaces showing...
Scientists discovered that time can flow in opposite directions in the quantum realm, contradicting our everyday experience. Mathematical models showed equations remained unchanged whether time moved forward or backward,...
DARPA's NOM4D program is advancing to orbital demonstrations, testing new materials and assembly techniques for large-scale space structures. In 2026, Caltech will construct a 1.4-meter truss in orbit, while the University of...
The Zwicky Transient Facility's release of 3,628 Type Ia Supernovae doubles available data for cosmology, potentially revolutionizing measurements of universal expansion and impacting our understanding of dark energy and the...
MIT researchers developed MiFly, a system enabling drones to self-localize in dark, indoor environments using radio waves reflected by a single tag. Two onboard radars measure the drone's position relative to the tag, with data...
China's University of Science and Technology has developed a new hydrogen-based battery with an energy density of 2825 Wh/kg and 99.7% efficiency. This Li-H battery system uses hydrogen as the anode, achieving a 3-volt working...
Two MIT undergraduates, Gloria Zhu and Lee Liu, created a calligraphy machine during IAP 2024. Built in just over a month, the device features a brush pen with five degrees of freedom and a movable carriage to vary stroke width....
John McFall, a British Paralympic sprinter and surgeon, has become the first person with a physical disability cleared to fly to the International Space Station. This landmark decision follows a feasibility study that found no...
Laconic is a SmartNIC-based load balancer that optimizes Layer 7 load balancing through three key techniques: a lightweight network stack, efficient shared data synchronization, and hardware acceleration. It achieves up to 8x...
Meta is building Project Waterworth, a 50,000-kilometer subsea cable connecting five continents, set to be the world's longest. The $10 billion+ project aims to enhance Meta's control over its services, support AI innovation, and...
AI-designed enzymes can now break down ester bonds in plastics, with one design matching natural enzyme activity, by combining multiple AI approaches to create functional enzymes capable of catalyzing complex multi-step reactions.
Meta is forming a new team to develop humanoid robots for physical tasks, led by former Cruise CEO Marc Whitten. The initiative aims to create a hardware foundation for the robotics market, potentially including household...
Researchers at the University of Chicago created a groundbreaking memory storage method using atom-level defects in rare earth-doped crystals, potentially allowing terabytes of data to be stored in a tiny one-millimeter cube, far...
The PNNL-developed mini flow battery enables rapid testing of new energy storage materials using milligrams instead of grams, potentially reducing costs and accelerating research into more efficient and scalable battery...
Mathics3 is an open-source computer algebra system that mimics Mathematica's syntax and functions, featuring a modular design with a kernel, CLI, and browser-based server, built on Python libraries and supported by comprehensive...
China is developing a deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, set to be operational by 2030. Located 6,560 feet underwater, it will house up to six scientists for month-long missions to study ecosystems and methane...
Cheap solar power is disrupting traditional electrical grids, leading to a "death spiral" for utilities. As more customers generate their own electricity, utility revenues decline, forcing rate increases that drive even more...
Milrem Robotics' new HAVOC 8×8 is a 15-tonne hybrid-electric combat vehicle with a 30-mm gun, modular payloads, and autonomous features, offering high mobility and firepower for reconnaissance and combat support in complex...