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OpenAI's new ChatGPT Edu is for universities. Here's how teachers and students can benefit

Australian firm cryogenically freezes man after death in hopes of revival | An Australian man underwent the first successful cryonics suspension via Southern Cryonics and CryoPath tech.

Robotic ‘Third Thumb’ expands hand’s range of motion, carrying capacity | Study showed, 98 percent of participants successfully manipulated objects with the Third Thumb, with only 13 unable to perform the task within the first minute.

World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September

Scientists create new color-changing ‘sunglasses for windows’ to block heat | Once activated the color changing film can retain the color for 40 hours unless a reverse potential is applied to make it transparent.

Attosecond X-Ray Pulses Reveal the Dance of Electrons

Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain | Precision expects its minimally invasive brain implant to hit the market next year.

DARPA intends to wirelessly charge drones while in flight by power-beaming

Netflix CEO says AI won’t replace writers or ‘take your job’

Three New Supercomputers Reach Top of Green500 List. Efficiency ratings matter more and more in the exascale age.

Noise-canceling headphones use AI to let a single voice through. They could help wearers focus on specific voices in noisy environments, such as a friend in a crowd or a tour guide amid the urban hubbub.

Organic waste can't be added directly to concrete because it would decompose over time and weaken the building material. To overcome this challenge, researchers developed a technique to make concrete 30% stronger using coffee biochar made with a low-energy process without oxygen.

ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down

New tool blocks high-frequency signal interference, aids 6G tech | The adjustable filter is designed to prevent signals from causing interference, even in higher-frequency bands. The quarter-sized filter will unlock the next generation of wireless communications.

2 teens won $50,000 for inventing a device that can filter toxic microplastics from water

New ‘invisible tweezers’ can make robot surgery non-invasive | The method uses acoustic emitters to create 3D vortex fields, acting like invisible tweezers to traverse bone and tissue.

New warp drive concept does twist space, doesn’t move us very fast. While it won't make a useful spaceship engine, it may tell us more about relativity.

Scientists print invisible, spider silk-like sensors directly on skin | The fibres used in these sensors are at least 50 times thinner than a human hair.

'Bio-paper' implant: Personalized wireless electrotherapy for Parkinson's

'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement

Scientists grow diamonds from scratch in 15 minutes thanks to groundbreaking new process

A device that zaps the spinal cord gave paralyzed people better control of their hands

You can now buy a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot for $16K

Copper-coated steel promises 90% bacterial elimination from surfaces | Scientists developed a copper-coated nanotextured stainless steel (nSS) surface to prevent bacterial infections, effective in most shared environments.

Crushing It: Autonomous AI Robot Creates a Shock-Absorbing Shape No Human Ever Could

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC | Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

Single brain implant gives paralyzed man bilingual communication

There’s one way to save Apple from irrelevance, and Tim Cook’s not going to like it

Green concrete recycling twice the coal ash is built to last

Visual implant developed with ‘electrodes the size of a single neuron’

The Supermarket Scanner Changed the Way We Buy Groceries Forever. Invented 50 years ago, the curious box deciphered an arcane kind of code to offer shoppers a trip into the future.

China’s first large-scale sodium-ion battery charges to 90% in 12 minutes

Repurposed beer yeast may offer a cost-effective way to remove lead from water

5 Things to Know About NASA’s Tiny Twin Polar Satellites

5 Things to Know About NASA’s Tiny Twin Polar Satellites

Researchers develop a detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases

UK builds world’s smallest light detector to shrink quantum computers | The detector is not just the world’s smallest but also 10 times faster than detectors previously built for quantum light detection.

‘Sarcasm detector’: Scientists finally create AI that can understand a joke

Twitter is officially X.com now

Quantum internet inches closer: Qubits sent 22 miles via fiber optic cable | Three research labs in three different countries have found different ways to make the quantum internet possible.

Super-efficient solar cells: Solar cells that combine traditional silicon with cutting-edge perovskites

"Snake-like" Probe Images Arteries from Within | The new fiber-optic probe could transform aneurysm and brain clot treatments

New neural tech could power insect-sized intelligent flying robots | The system uses a five-layer spiking neural network with 28,800 neurons to analyze raw event-based camera data and estimate the camera’s 3D motion.

Robotic “SuperLimbs” could help moonwalkers recover from falls

Power the poor: Sweden makes low-cost zinc battery with 8,000 charging cycles | The battery is made from abundantly available materials and retains 80 percent of its performance over the course of 8,000 cycles.

This Microcapacitor Charges 100 Million Times Faster Than Lithium-ion Batteries | A materials tweak could push microcapacitors onto next-gen chips

In Seawater, Researchers See an Untapped Bounty of Critical Metals

Scientists develop an affordable sensor for lead contamination

Revolutionary AI Device Mimics Human Brain With Few-Molecule Computing

Startup Sends Bluetooth Into Low Earth Orbit. Hubble Network and Life360 aim to launch a worldwide item-tracking network.