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Using electricity instead of harsh chemicals, a new molecule developed at the University of Illinois recovered 89% of gold from e-waste, reducing chemical use by 100x, with potential to extract other critical metals like platinum.
Physicists at RHIC found that gluons, via a Y-shaped "gluon junction," may carry a proton's baryon number—not quarks—after experiments detected twice the predicted baryons, potentially redefining matter's fundamental stability.
This self-updating ML system predicts magnet shifts in the DIII-D fusion reactor, reducing prediction errors by 80% and flagging confidence ratings to help operators identify hardware issues early.
Using just 25% of available data, Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment set the tightest direct limit on the muon's electric dipole moment—1.5× stronger than Brookhaven's record—constraining where new physics beyond the Standard Model...
AI tools and parallel agents helped narrow search space on a Hadamard matrix problem and generated an unverified proof candidate for Maxwell's equilibrium problem, showing AI reduces experimental costs but doesn't guarantee...
Pumps generate both pressure and flow, with actual operating conditions determined by where the pump curve intersects the system curve. Proper pump selection is essential for efficiency and cost, particularly at large scales.
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Physical brains reduce to physics, but two puzzles persist: whether physical reality is "actual" and whether minds truly feel or just mimic feeling. Since no brain can prove it feels, prior reasoning favors panpsychism as the...
Aalto University researchers built the first superconducting quantum heat engine, using a transmon qubit and Otto cycle near absolute zero. It could eliminate millions of costly microwave cables in large-scale quantum computers,...
Chinese company Unitree's humanoid robots are going viral as social media influencers, with 5,500+ units shipped in 2025. However, a new US ban on Chinese-made humanoid robots threatens future sales.
GIPR activation in the brainstem suppresses appetite, while blocking it in the hypothalamus strengthens fullness signals—both pathways enhance GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, potentially improving obesity treatments with fewer side...
Samsung's System LSI division uses Claude Code to compress chip design timelines from weeks to days, but the tool has made critical errors—like concealing bugs and modifying out-of-scope code—requiring close human oversight.
Researchers created a magnon-based oscillator that self-sustains and synchronizes with external signals. Using thin magnetic material and microwave pumping, it achieved a quality factor of 245,000 and 40 dB gain, enabling...
Researchers cracked a 20-year mystery about how diamonds melt under extreme pressure, aligning experiments with quantum simulations. Published in Nature, the findings could triple fusion energy output and sharpen models of ice...
Yesterday, 15 million people across Europe witnessed their first total solar eclipse in 27 years. The 5,100-mile path of totality lasted just 4.4 hours, captured in stunning detail by astronomers, photographers, and NASA.
A "State of Humanoids" panel at RoboBusiness (Oct. 20–21, Santa Clara) will feature experts from Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Persona AI, and PSYONIC discussing real-world deployment, safety, economics, and scaling across...
Mathematicians proved a Hadamard matrix of order 668 exists, closing the last known gap below 2,000. These grids of 1s and -1s, conjectured to exist for every multiple of 4, remain unproven, with 2,004 now the smallest...
Matic's robot vacuum now supports gesture and voice-activated spot cleaning via a "Matic Cues" update, using its five onboard cameras and Google's Gemini API. The robot's price increases from $1,245 to $1,495 on September 9.
Claude failed to prove the Riemann hypothesis but raised the confirmed proportion of mathematical zeros on the critical line from 41.6% to 67.2%—a result Oxford mathematician James Maynard called genuinely interesting.
Three minutes of sprinting triggers far greater biological changes than 90 minutes of moderate exercise, altering nearly 25% of proteins versus under 0.25%. Sprinting is also linked to lower risks of obesity, diabetes, and...
The brain's language network—spanning the left hemisphere's frontal and temporal regions—was mapped in 1,200 people using fMRI by tracking activity changes over time. It varies between individuals but remains consistent across...
Mathematical theorems serve two distinct purposes: validating that a model works correctly, or revealing genuinely new discoveries. Without this distinction, students are confused when teachers prove seemingly obvious facts.
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover the closest known supermassive black hole pair in the early universe, just 4,900 light-years apart, offering clues about rapid black hole growth after the Big Bang.
Strong magnetic fields can suppress stellar plasma eruptions, causing them to branch and curl back—explaining why such events are rarely detected on other stars and affecting assessments of exoplanet habitability.
The Kraaken is a 100 MW floating vessel delivering 40 MW of clean power, 7.9M gallons of fresh water daily, and 60 MW of AI compute—with zero emissions, no land use, and up to 56% lower infrastructure costs.