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CES 2026 featured major automotive advances: Qualcomm's unified Snapdragon chip, BMW's Alexa+ integration, Waymo's Ojay robotaxi, and Donut Lab's first production solid-state battery.
Silicon-carbon batteries in new phones like OnePlus 15 deliver 7,000-9,000mAh versus lithium-ion's 5,500mAh limit. Solid-state, nuclear, and graphene batteries may further revolutionize smartphone battery life.
Hubble discovered an extraordinary bright pink and green glow in the constellation Sagittarius, marking the first time astronomers have found Herbig-Haro objects powered by a young massive star rather than typical low-mass stars....
Hubble photographed NGC 1333, a star-forming region 950 light-years away, showing young stars creating cavities with powerful winds and protoplanetary disks where planets may form.
Amazon Web Services became the first customer for an Arizona copper mine that uses bacteria to extract metal from low-grade ore through "bioleaching" technology developed by Nuton Technologies. This innovative mining method uses...
Scientists created Stomata In-Sight, a palm-sized device that monitors microscopic leaf pores in real-time using microscopy and machine learning. This tool helps develop climate-resilient crops by understanding how plants...
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Chinese scientists developed a lunar timekeeping system that accounts for Einstein's relativity, addressing the fact that time passes 56 microseconds faster on the moon each Earth day due to weaker gravity. Their software,...
String theory researchers continue generating exaggerated claims about breakthrough applications, with recent studies supposedly explaining brain architecture and dark energy despite lacking real-world relevance. After decades of...
Genetic variants previously believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss in less than 30% of cases, according to new research analyzing data from over 800,000 people in major...
Scientists used the Solar Orbiter spacecraft to track a massive solar storm for 94 days, marking the first complete observation of a solar flare's entire lifecycle from formation to decay. This breakthrough allows researchers to...
Recent observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have revealed discrepancies in our understanding of cosmic expansion, prompting researcher Muhammad Ghulam Khuwajah Khan to propose that space itself may possess...
Scientists at TU Wien discovered that materials can display topological properties even when electrons stop behaving like particles, overturning a fundamental physics assumption. By studying a cerium-ruthenium-tin compound at...
Twenty-five years ago, neuroscientist Christof Koch was so confident scientists would crack consciousness that he bet a case of fine wine on it. He lost, but researchers haven't given up on solving what's called the hard problem:...
Monk fruit, a Chinese vine traditionally used in foods and remedies, contains powerful health compounds including terpenoids, flavonoids, and amino acids that act as antioxidants and interact with cellular receptors to support...
Scientists identified "marine darkwaves" - underwater blackouts from sediment, algae, and debris that darken coastal waters for days or months. These events, often storm-triggered, severely disrupt kelp forests and coral...
Scientists extracted DNA from woolly rhino meat found in a 14,400-year-old wolf's stomach, revealing the species was genetically healthy just 400 years before vanishing from the fossil record. The genome showed the rhino...
Astronomers discovered a white dwarf star 730 light-years from Earth that's creating an impossible rainbow shock wave as it devours its companion star. The zombie star RXJ0528+2838 shouldn't produce such outflows according to...
Columbia University researchers discovered why statins cause muscle pain in some patients by using advanced imaging to observe how the drugs interact with muscle cells. They found that simvastatin binds to specific sites on a...
While cesarean sections account for about one-third of U.S. births today, this surgical procedure has ancient roots dating back to the Roman Empire, where it was used to save babies when mothers died during childbirth. The first...
Scientists found that Jupiter's gravity is too weak to create seafloor volcanic activity on Europa. The moon's ocean floor lacks the hydrothermal vents needed to support life.
China submitted requests to the UN's International Telecommunication Union seeking approval for two massive satellite constellations, CTC-1 and CTC-2, each containing nearly 97,000 satellites designed to compete with SpaceX's...
Neuroscientists at Kyoto University discovered the brain mechanism behind procrastination by studying monkeys performing reward-based tasks with unpleasant consequences like air blasts to the face. They found that a specific...
A study of 10,000 brain scans found memory decline accelerates when brain shrinkage hits specific thresholds. Memory loss involves widespread brain changes, not just the hippocampus, affecting entire neural networks during aging.
NASA conducted its first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station, sending four astronauts back to Earth after one crew member required medical care that couldn't be provided in space. The crew from the U.S.,...