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Japanese scientists can recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries, nearly double traditional rates, by substituting lithium hydroxide during recycling, cutting carbon emissions by 40%, with scaled production planned by 2027.
Chinese researchers propose dark matter comprises two particle types of different masses that interact, causing heavier particles to concentrate at galaxy centers. This "mass segregation" effect may explain both low dark matter...
China leads globally in long railway bridges, topped by the 164.8 km Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge for 350 km/h trains. Taiwan and Japan feature seismic-resistant elevated viaducts optimized for high-speed rail.
Q-CTRL's Ironstone Opal is the world's first airworthy quantum navigation system, using quantum sensors and magnetic mapping as a GPS backup. It maintains accuracy within 0.3 nautical miles, meeting commercial aviation standards.
Booster Robotics' T2 humanoid robot runs on Nvidia's Thor chip (2,070 TFLOPS), stands 4.5 feet tall with 31 degrees of freedom, and can walk, recover from falls, and manipulate objects, supported by the Booster Studio platform.
Online spaces merge all local norms into one universal context, where negativity spreads easily because suffering needs no cultural translation, while positive content stays too context-specific to travel far, homogenizing...
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Astronomers detected erythrulose, a raspberry sugar, in interstellar gas clouds near the Milky Way's center, the first sugar found in space, suggesting life's building blocks may form between stars and reach planets via asteroid...
HydroGraph Clean Power will build a 40,000-sq-ft graphene plant in Bellville, Texas, supplied by a dedicated acetylene pipeline, opening in early 2027 with initial output of 360 tons annually, scaling to 750 tons.
Curio has teamed up with Sargent & Lundy to design a commercial plant for its NuCycle spent fuel recycling technology, backed by $14M in federal grants and validated across four national labs.
Long-range atomic ordering in nichrome alloys creates "corrosion highways" in molten salt reactor walls, Penn State researchers found. This discovery could guide engineers in designing more corrosion-resistant vessels for...
Earth has roughly 3 trillion trees, but 46% of original tree cover is gone, with 15 billion lost yearly. Experts stress that protecting mature forests, superior in carbon storage and biodiversity, outweighs planting new ones.
US researchers have built a seawater reactor that extracts critical minerals like lithium and magnesium, with one California facility potentially producing over three times the nation's daily magnesium needs, cutting import...
Euclid's telescope discovered EUCL J1729, the most distant supermassive black hole known, emitting light just 662 million years post-Big Bang, plus 11 additional early quasars, enabling population-level study of ancient black...
Researchers at Kiel University created a scalable sponge-like material that extracts up to 60 oz of drinking water daily from air, even in arid conditions, costing just $12–$14/kg and producible in 66 lb batches.
A hidden electromagnet and microcontroller give this Newton's Cradle an almost infinite swing by precisely replacing lost energy each cycle. The self-contained system runs on a rechargeable battery, with all electronics concealed...
During France's severe heatwave, EDF shut down three nuclear reactors and reduced power at eight others to comply with regulations preventing overheated cooling water from being released into warm rivers.
MIT's new infrared camera chip uses electronic pixel-level control instead of bulky moving optics, enabling smaller, more adaptable thermal cameras. Scalable to millions of pixels, it could enhance gas leak detection, pollution...
City Labs launched BOHR, the world's first commercial nuclear-powered CubeSat, on July 7, 2026, via SpaceX Falcon 9. The milestone validates small nuclear satellites for commercial low Earth orbit use.
Keio University and MIT researchers created a silent, helium-filled home robot inspired by Tinker Bell and Mew. It uses soft flapping fins to hover quietly, deliver reminders, and provide safe, gentle companionship.
New research shows decision-making starts earlier in the brain than thought, with sensory regions playing a role via two-way feedback loops, not just the frontal cortex. This could inspire more capable, energy-efficient AI...
JAXA successfully tested a prototype reusable rocket on July 11, reaching 10 meters before landing safely in a 40-second flight, joining SpaceX and China in developing cost-cutting reusable rocket technology.
LingBot-VA 2.0, from Ant Group's Robbyant, is a robotics-native AI model running at 150 Hz on a single GPU that learns new tasks from just 20 demonstrations, enabling faster real-world robot deployment.
Aalto University scientists created the world's first superconducting quantum heat engine, replicating the Otto cycle using a qubit and quantum refrigerator. This could replace expensive microwave cables in quantum computers,...
Penn State's new 3D chip runs on ambient light, no battery needed. It stacks solar cells, logic, and graphene sensors within 50nm, slashing energy loss and making it ideal for remote IoT deployments.