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The USGS discovered 2.3 million metric tons of recoverable lithium in the Appalachian mountains — enough to power 130 million EVs and supply 328 years of US imports. The find could help reduce America's dependence on foreign lithium, particularly from China-dominated supply chains.
Webb telescope discovered EGS-z11-R0, a surprisingly mature, dust-filled galaxy from just 400 million years post-Big Bang, suggesting galaxies began forming earlier than previously thought—possibly as early as 200 million years...
Colorado-based Ursa Major has become only the third US company — alongside SpaceX and Blue Origin — to successfully refly a reusable hypersonic liquid rocket engine. Its Hadley engine completed 10 consecutive flights, several at...
A YouTuber named Simon Sörensen built a two-seat solar car using e-bike parts, showing how downsizing can make solar-powered driving more practical. The lightweight vehicle runs four hub motors, one per wheel, and draws up to 300...
Researchers have mapped the 3D atomic charge structure of relaxor ferroelectrics for the first time, revealing polar regions far smaller than predicted. This enables more accurate simulations, advancing medical devices, energy...
Kinetix AI's humanoid robot KAI stands 5'8" tall, features 115 degrees of freedom and 18,000 touch sensors, and is priced under $40,000, targeting retail and home services with mass production planned for late 2026.
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Researchers from Columbia and Harvard used AI tools to engineer bacteria with a ribosome that works without isoleucine, one of the 20 amino acids all life uses. The redesigned bacteria survived and grew at 60% the normal rate,...
MathDuels is a new benchmark that tests AI models as both math problem creators and solvers, revealing capability gaps that traditional tests miss. Across 19 frontier models, some excel at writing hard problems but struggle to...
Forget rocket fuel. Researchers at Texas A&M University say the key to reaching another star system might be light itself. Their team has successfully levitated and steered tiny microscopic devices using only laser beams, no...
The foundation of all math rests on a small set of accepted truths called axioms — statements taken as true without proof. For decades, mathematicians debated whether to accept one particular axiom, the Axiom of Choice, because...
GAME combines multiple algorithms and averages their results to track cosmic change 95% more accurately, helping scientists better reconstruct the universe's expansion rate and validate cosmological models.
China's research team has built a truck-mounted, 10-megawatt nuclear reactor prototype designed to run for decades without recharging. The compact unit could power a mid-sized AI data center and serve remote areas, ships, and...
Robotic arms with 3D sensors and grapples will remotely retrieve 126,000 radioactive waste barrels from Germany's unstable Asse II mine, keeping workers safe and potentially informing nuclear cleanup at similar sites globally.
Motubrain is a unified AI model by China's ShengShu Technology that enables robots to see, reason, and act in one system. Backed by $293M from Alibaba Cloud, it handles 10 sequential actions and self-corrects mid-task without...
A 10-year study of 146 patients found that partial meniscectomy — a common knee surgery to trim torn cartilage — not only failed to help patients but actually led to worse outcomes than fake surgery, including poorer knee...
China's State Grid Corporation is spending $1 billion to deploy 8,500 AI-powered robots across its power grid in 2026, including 5,000 robot dogs, 500 humanoid robots, and 3,000 dual-arm machines. These robots will inspect...
Webb telescope detected thick water-ice clouds on Epsilon Indi Ab, a massive exo-Jupiter 12 light-years away. Further observations with NASA's upcoming Roman Space Telescope may reveal more about this cold, Jupiter-like planet.
A spent Falcon 9 rocket upper stage from a January 2025 lunar mission is on a collision course with the Moon, expected to impact on August 5 at 2:44 am ET. The 45-foot-tall piece of space debris will strike the lunar surface...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stirred debate at a Senate hearing by announcing the agency is preparing papers to push for Pluto's reclassification as a full planet, nearly 20 years after it was downgraded to "dwarf planet"...
The US has completed delivery of the central solenoid magnet — the "beating heart" — for ITER, the world's largest nuclear fusion reactor being built in France. Built over 15 years at General Atomics in California, the 135-ton...
Mount Etna defies all known volcano categories, sitting above colliding tectonic plates while producing hotspot-like lava without an actual hotspot. Its magma rises through plate folds from a deep melting layer, representing an...
A rice grain-sized solid-state battery, developed by UAE firm XPANCEO and French company ITEN, could power smart contact lenses capable of displaying augmented reality and monitoring health in real time. Unlike traditional...
Japanese researchers have created molecular quantum nanosensors (MoQNs) that can measure temperature and detect harmful chemical radicals inside living cells with extreme precision. Unlike previous sensors, every MoQN is...
During the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, seismometers across North America picked up something unexpected — cities went unusually quiet. In places where the moon fully blocked the sun, ground vibrations dropped...