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UK unveils world's 1st AI-designed urban wind turbine with 7x efficiency

Facebook parent company Meta plans to build its own sub-sea cable — the source says the company plans to “avoid areas of geopolitical tension”

Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say | TechCrunch

Korea’s artificial Sun switched on to target tungsten impurities

Robot balloons soar 85,000 ft, map NYC-sized areas with 0 emissions

Gold-based drug slows cancer tumor growth by 82%, outperforms chemotherapy | Gold’s unique properties make it ideal for medical applications, as it is highly stable and unreactive, which also explains its common use in jewelry and coins.

Japan’s superalloys withstand 1112°F test to protect nuclear fusion reactors

Researchers develop rare earth-free high power electric motors using copper | Using copper coils instead of rare Earth materials in the motor’s rotating part is much more accessible.

Scientists use sunlight to break the toughest plastic to recycle

To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays. New research shows the filter-feeders strike a natural balance between permeability and selectivity that could inform design of water treatment systems.

An A.I. Granny Is Phone Scammers’ Worst Nightmare

Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet hits 25,040 feet in record-setting flight

Engineers turn rotten seaweed into car fuel, aim to cut 14 million-ton of CO2 | Seaweed is showing up on Caribbean beaches and cleaning up costs are in millions of dollars. But this waste can be turned into precious fuels.

A reaction that only measured protons detected neutrons for the first time | For the last 10 years, scientists have been working on a neutron detector. Finally, they tested it, and it worked like magic.

US microreactor triggers shutdown within 300 milliseconds of emergency

"... jet engines shouldn’t be possible" “The air coming in is hotter than the melting point of the metal underneath... To get around this problem heat-resistant ceramic coatings are applied to the engine blades. Now researchers are developing stronger coatings allowing the engines to run even hotter

Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta

New heat-to-electricity tech beats battery storage with 60% efficiency

This New, Yellow Powder Quickly Pulls Carbon Dioxide From the Air. Scientists say just 200 grams of the porous material, known as a covalent organic framework, is called COF-999, could capture 44 pounds of the greenhouse gas per year—the same as a large tree

US deploys first-ever autonomous robotic cameras in stratosphere nationwide

New solar cell coating triples efficiency, stability, conversion rate

Bite of hope: Malaria vaccine delivered by gene-edited mosquito kills infection by 89% | This technique gave the immune system a powerful boost, shielding people from the disease.

US deploys first-ever autonomous robotic cameras in stratosphere nationwide | The Swift robots offer enhanced resolution capabilities of 7 centimeters, which match or surpass traditional aerial survey quality.

Chemists Use Light To Break Down PFAS at Room Temperature | Chemists have illustrated how an LED light-based photocatalytic system can break the carbon-fluorine bonds in PFAS.

Space-Age material to boost next-gen modular nuclear fusion reactors

No more injections: MIT develop capsule that delivers drugs straight to the gut | This capsule is designed to release drugs directly into the stomach wall or other organs in the digestive tract.

Neuromorphic Camera Helps Drones Navigate GPS-free. High-end positioning tech comes to low-cost UAVs.

UK scientists extend solar cell life by stunning 66%, boost efficiency by 23% | To enhance the performance of lead-tin perovskite cells, the team investigated the role of the hole transport layer, a crucial component in solar cell function.

Princeton achieves 10x reduction in tritium needs for nuclear fusion

New 3D Bioprinter Could Build Replicas of Human Organs, Offering a Boost for Drug Discovery | The invention uses light, sound and bubbles to quickly create copies of soft tissue that might one day support testing individualized therapies for cancer and other diseases

Scientists identify tomato genes to tweak for sweeter fruit

Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system. Visual scans of the world have helped Niantic build what it calls a "Large Geospatial Model."

422-million-year-old ancient animal cell helps scientists create a mouse | The team uncovered that choanoflagellates possess versions of the Sox and POU genes—key drivers of pluripotency.

MIT spinout uses engines to turn trash gas into green fuel factories

Tethered robots could turn Moon’s lava tubes into future astronaut homes | The researchers put this system to the test in the harsh volcanic landscapes of Lanzarote Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

Revolutionary membrane tech separates 97% oil from water with 99.9% purity | Researchers in China have unveiled a new, highly effective technique for separating oil and water mixtures.

OLED vs Mini-LED: which TV

Robot dog BERT moves faster using new energy-efficient movement tech

China’s 3 GW solar plant with nearly 6,000,000 panels to power millions of homes | With nearly 6 million panels, the project will prevent release of 4.7 million tons of CO2 every year.

Scientists Make First Mechanical Qubit

ITER receives Hyundai-made vacuum vessel to house nuclear reactions

Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?

Electro-biodiesel: Scientists make 45x more efficient fuel from CO2

New Twitch policy bans the word ‘Zionist’ amid antisemitism accusations - Dexerto

Wave-busting tech from Edinburgh keeps robots steady in stormy waters

Finland’s 100MW sand battery turns 2,000 tons of fireplace waste into power | In terms of size, this unique battery will have a height of about 13 meters and a width of roughly 15 meters.

New microreactor converts CO2 to methanol with renewable energy

Fatbergs fighter: New self-healing zinc coating cuts sewer clogging by 30% | In lab tests, the coated concrete showed a 30% reduction in fat, oil, and grease buildup.

Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini

Beetle-inspired robots roll objects with new neural control system