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Incat's 130-meter *China Zorrilla* is the world's largest all-electric ferry, carrying 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles between Argentina and Uruguay using a 41.2 MWh battery system with zero emissions.
Ancient civilizations were far more innovative than most people realize, developing technologies that seem impossibly advanced for their time. From a 2,000-year-old Greek analog computer that tracked planetary movements to Roman...
Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider found growing evidence that B meson particles decay in ways that contradict the standard model of physics, with a 1-in-16,000 chance the result is random noise. This hints at...
Hubble's reanalysis found no strong evidence of Europa's water plumes, with a hydrogen haze likely causing the false signal. NASA's Europa Clipper, arriving in 2030, may confirm if its hidden ocean is accessible.
Six red dwarf stars have surprisingly high lithium levels, likely because they absorbed rocky planets up to 10 times Earth's mass. This finding could shed light on how early planetary systems form and disappear.
Researchers developed a stretchable hydrogel generator that harvests moisture to produce 0.94V, powering health-monitoring wearables through 8,000 bending cycles. Glycerol infusion enhances electrode bonding, ion movement, and...
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Researchers from Peking and Stanford universities developed flexible carbon nanotube transistors operating above 100 GHz, meeting a key 6G requirement. Balancing heat management with speed, these bendable devices could power...
Chemist Garnet Chan set out to understand fundamental biochemical processes, but ended up at the center of a major debate in computing. His team successfully simulated nitrogen fixation — a complex chemical reaction critical to...
Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz solved a long-standing math puzzle: what's the minimum number of folds needed to make a paper torus, a doughnut-shaped form. Using machine learning, he discovered the answer requires just 24...
A robotic hand just auditioned as a pianist, and the judges couldn't always tell it wasn't human. Researchers at USC built a four-fingered mechanical hand that learned to play a melody by ear after just two minutes of random...
On July 9, 1962, the U.S. detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear warhead 250 miles above the Pacific, and the electromagnetic pulse traveled nearly 900 miles to Hawaii, knocking out streetlights, triggering burglar alarms, and damaging...
Researchers have developed an experimental technique called electromechanical reshaping (EMR) that uses mild electricity to temporarily soften the cornea, mold it into a new shape, and correct vision — no lasers or cutting...
A single infusion of an experimental gene-editing drug called VERVE-102 cut bad cholesterol by 62% in early trial participants, with effects lasting up to 18 months. The drug permanently disables a gene controlling cholesterol...
Hina's sodium-ion batteries now rival Tesla's lithium-ion cells in performance, and sodium's abundance could slash costs. The main hurdle before EV adoption is improving low-temperature charging capability.
MIT researchers have developed a room-temperature method to extract lithium from hard rock, cutting refining costs in half and nearly eliminating toxic waste. Inspired by glass-etching cream, the process dissolves silica first...
Aalto University's Ice and Wave Tank — the world's largest — simulates Arctic conditions to help engineers design ships and wind turbines for icy waters, as climate change and growing shipping traffic demand better understanding...
Most scientists have long believed consciousness lives in the brain's outer layer, the cortex — but a growing number of researchers think it may actually originate in the deeper, more ancient subcortex. Children born without a...
The U.S. has been dreaming of a moon base since 1958, when the Air Force first proposed an underground lunar base for 21 people. Multiple ambitious plans followed — from the Army's 1959 Project Horizon to NASA's 1989 Space...
NVIDIA's ICRA papers show simulation-trained robots achieving 80% navigation success and 75% grasping accuracy on unknown objects, with 38% assembly gains — signaling real-world viability beyond controlled lab environments.
Chinese scientists completed 98 deep-sea dives and discovered 32 species — mostly new to science — thriving in near-freezing darkness nearly 6 miles underwater, overturning the long-held belief that the deepest ocean trenches...
Using data from nearly 400 gravitational-wave detections, Australian astrophysicists have found that black holes form and merge in multiple ways — from collapsing gas clouds to chance encounters in dense star clusters. Some black...
Pigeons can navigate hundreds of miles home using a magnetic sixth sense, and new research in Science suggests their liver may be the key. Iron-filled immune cells in the liver, positioned near nerves, appear to detect magnetic...
Modern spacecraft and observatories have transformed our understanding of the sun's dynamic behavior, building on thousands of years of observation—from Babylonian sunspot records to Galileo's telescope—helping scientists assess...
A robot with no front, no back, and twenty legs is crawling up walls and pushing oversized cubes across a college campus, and researchers say that's exactly the point. Engineers at Duke University have built Argus, a...