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Penn State engineers created a paintable conductive ink that forms skin-conforming health-monitoring electrodes, eliminating air gaps for more accurate heart, brain, and muscle signal tracking, and can even wirelessly control robotic prosthetics.
Xiaomi's U0 is a 38B-parameter model that generates synthetic robot training data, boosting task success rates from 36.9% to 63.2%, showing that AI-generated data can significantly accelerate robot learning without expensive...
AI helped University of Toronto researchers discover six heat-resistant metal alloys outperforming Inconel 625 by up to 85%. Using active learning, the system identified top candidates within weeks, enabling complex components...
Alkaline Thermal Treatment converts unsorted mixed plastic waste into hydrogen fuel with over 90% purity in a single reactor, while locking carbon into solid minerals, though large-scale testing is still needed.
LHS 1140-b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years away, shows direct evidence of an atmosphere and likely liquid water, the first habitable-zone rocky planet to meet all three key criteria for Earth-like life.
GPT-5.6 Sol solved the 50-year-old "cycle double cover conjecture" using 64 parallel agents. Experts warn this may signal a broader trend: AI finding "easy" solutions to problems long assumed difficult by humans.
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Physicists used optical fiber to simulate Hawking radiation, observing for the first time how that radiation pushes back on the black hole that created it, offering experimental insight into how black holes may slowly evaporate.
NASA selected 41 tech proposals from 37 companies under its 2025 Collaboration Opportunity program, offering $30M in facilities and expertise instead of direct funding to advance Moon and Mars mission technologies.
Starlink's new V5 home dish is smaller, lighter (2.4 vs. 6.5 lbs), and more energy-efficient (35–50W vs. 75–100W) than the V4, but currently only supports the $55/month plan with slightly slower speeds.
NASA flight surgeon Anil Menon launched to space Tuesday aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan, after four rejections spanning decades. His astronaut wife Anna and their children watched the milestone launch.
The IT cortex makes subtle but measurable changes when animals learn to recognize new objects, helping identification across varying angles and sizes. This discovery, validated using AI models, could inform better learning...
Using Hubble's UV data, astronomers uncovered four nearby white dwarfs hidden by brighter red dwarf companions. One, just 25 light-years away, went undetected for 27 years and is now the ninth closest white dwarf to our Sun.
Xiaomi's humanoid robot hit 98% success on EV assembly lines, up from 90.2%, now handling three tasks including flexible parts, a humanoid first. Rivals Figure and AgiBot are also advancing rapidly.
KULR Technology Group will supply its NASA-approved K1S batteries for Icarus Robotics' AI robot JOY, launching to the ISS in 2027 to handle routine tasks and free up astronauts' valuable time.
Four children with terminal brain cancer remain alive years after receiving experimental TAA T-cell therapy, with three showing no signs of disease, offering hope for previously untreatable, fatal pediatric brain tumors.
Elon Musk acquired a gas turbine company to power AI data centers for SpaceX and xAI, giving his companies an on-site, independent energy source to support growing AI power demands.
Electra and Safran Helicopter Engines have partnered to supply 250 TG600 turbogenerators for the EL9 hybrid-electric aircraft, targeting FAA certification by 2030 to serve aviation-underserved communities using just 150-foot...
Korean researchers developed a hybrid spray-immersion cooling system for EV batteries that cuts coolant use by 85%, maintains temperatures below 35°C during rapid charging, and uses non-flammable dielectric fluid to significantly...
MIT engineers used magnets to mechanically stretch a miniature artery-on-a-chip, triggering controlled capillary growth. Adjusting stretch direction and intensity let them tune vessel number, length, and orientation, a...
Impossible Metals is launching a Pittsburgh robotics hub to build AI-driven underwater robots that selectively harvest critical minerals, nickel, cobalt, and copper, from the ocean floor while avoiding marine life, reducing US...
China's Lu Yaxiang developed a sodium battery charging in 4 minutes with 90% capacity after 2,000 cycles. Using abundant domestic sodium instead of imported lithium, CATL and Gotion are scaling production toward cost parity by...
Thermodynamic computing harnesses thermal energy rather than fighting it, potentially enabling faster, more energy-efficient machines, especially for AI and probabilistic workloads.
NASA awarded ~$600M to Astrobotic, Firefly, and Intuitive Machines for four 2028 Moon missions. Each will deploy identical instruments to study lunar dust, navigation, and radiation, supporting a permanent lunar base and future...
Regular aerobic exercise rewires cardiac nerves asymmetrically, quadrupling neurons on the right side while doubling neuron size on the left. This finding could enable more targeted, side-specific treatments for arrhythmias and...