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Chinese robotics company LimX Dynamics showcased their humanoid robot Oli performing traditional Chinese dance alongside human dancers at cultural landmarks in Shenzhen, from modern Shenzhen Bay to historic Gankeng Hakka Town. The 165cm robot demonstrated fluid, ballet-like movements through advanced engineering with 31 degrees of freedom and multi-sensor technology.
Qualcomm announced its acquisition of Arduino, the company that made microcontroller programming accessible to millions through boards like the popular Uno. The tech giant likely sees this as a way to make their development kits...
ESA inaugurated a massive 35-meter deep space antenna in Australia capable of communicating with spacecraft billions of miles away, featuring components cooled to near absolute zero for detecting extremely weak signals. The €62.3...
Paper folds and particle collisions share a hidden mathematical soul. Cornell mathematician Pavel Galashin has discovered that origami crease patterns mysteriously connect to the amplituhedron, a geometric shape whose volume...
Tesla's German plant manager accidentally revealed that production of an affordable "light version" of the Model Y will begin within weeks, essentially confirming what the company plans to unveil at tomorrow's highly anticipated...
Austrian researchers discovered that microplastics significantly alter human gut bacteria in ways that mirror patterns seen in depression and colorectal cancer patients. The study exposed gut bacteria cultures from healthy...
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A small asteroid measuring 3 to 10 feet wide passed closer to Earth than most satellites orbit last week, flying at roughly the same altitude as the International Space Station before astronomers detected it hours after the...
Researchers analyzed sediment cores and ceramics at Egypt's Karnak Temple, revealing it was built on an island emerging from Nile floodwaters around 2520 BCE, deliberately matching ancient Egyptian creation myths.
Nio set a single-day record with 145,395 battery swaps on October 1 during China's Golden Week holiday. However, CEO William Li announced the company will miss its 2025 expansion targets to focus on fifth-generation stations.
Canadian researchers developed the DART drone that successfully lands on vehicles moving at highway speeds up to 68 mph using friction-based shock absorbers and reverse thrust technology. In 38 consecutive test landings on a...
Space-based solar power systems could revolutionize electricity generation by collecting solar energy in orbit and beaming it wirelessly to Earth. These satellites would operate continuously without weather interference or...
Japanese immunologist Shinya Yamanaka and British researcher James Allison won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering regulatory T cells, special immune cells that prevent the body's defense system from...
Astronomers have discovered the most distant and powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) ever found, located nearly 10 billion light-years away when the universe was half its current age, using citizen scientists and Europe's most...
Chinese researchers developed FlyingToolbox, allowing two drones to exchange tools mid-flight with sub-centimeter accuracy. The system uses neural networks and magnetic connectors to overcome turbulent airflow, enabling...
Swiss company Panatere launched the world's first solar furnaces that use concentrated sunlight to melt luxury watch and medical device steel scraps, reaching temperatures up to 3,632°F without fossil fuels. The technology could...
South Korea's Hanyang University created a playful response to another university's robotic moonwalk by programming a five-finger robotic hand to glide across a table while performing the iconic dance move to Michael Jackson's...
Scientists warn that "space tornadoes" from solar plasma eruptions threaten Earth's technology and could cause $7.2 billion daily losses from internet outages. Researchers propose a spacecraft constellation for early detection,...
Scientists used femtosecond squeezed light pulses to directly measure and control quantum uncertainty in real-time. This breakthrough enables ultra-secure communications requiring both encryption keys and precise timing to decode.
Dartmouth-based cleantech company Voltai raised $1.3 million to develop its revolutionary top-like wave energy converter that transforms ship movement and ocean waves into clean electricity. The compact electrostatic generator...
Scientists have developed a compact, table-sized detector that can sense gravitational waves in the previously unexplored milli-Hertz frequency range using advanced optical cavity and atomic clock technologies. This breakthrough...
Scientists at Ohio State University discovered why cancer immunotherapy often fails by identifying a hidden stress response called TexPSR that overwhelms T cells with misfolded proteins, similar to Alzheimer's plaques, causing...
A shooting robot delivered a streak of perfect 10s after recalibrating in the rain, but still lost to South Korea's national archers by a single point. The showdown unfolded at Gwangju's 5·18 Democracy Square during the 2025...
ESA has opened a new $67 million, 115-foot deep space antenna at New Norcia station in Western Australia, making it the first ESA ground station with two deep space antennas when it enters service in 2026. The antenna will...
University of Virginia researchers developed HydroSpread, a breakthrough method that creates tiny water-walking robots by fabricating flexible films directly on water surfaces instead of rigid surfaces that often tear during...