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Cambridge Study: A Simple Squeeze Doubles EV Battery Life
Steady physical pressure on lithium-ion pouch cells could double an EV battery's useful lifespan — no new chemistry required, according to new University of Cambridge research.
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Pisa Students Built a 65-Foot Paper Plane — and Set a World Record
A group of University of Pisa students engineered a 20-meter paper airplane called ICARUS, flew it 59 meters and broke a Guinness World Record that had stood since 2013.
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This New EV Charges From 10% to 80% in Under 6 Minutes
A new sedan from Geely's Lynk & Co brand can add 70 percent of its battery in the time it takes to buy coffee, thanks to a 900-volt architecture and a 492 kW average charging rate.
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Texas A&M's New Laser Tool Measures the Quantum Forces Behind Drugs
A Texas A&M team has built a laser-based technique called TRIP that can directly measure the faint quantum forces holding proteins and drugs together — a powerful new tool for the next generation of medicines.
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New Solid Material Turns Ordinary Sunlight Into Higher-Energy UV Light
A Kyushu University team built a stable solid material that fuses two visible photons into one ultraviolet photon — a long-sought breakthrough that could power cleaner air purification and solar chemistry.
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Monash Builds First Chip That Generates, Steers and Reads Light in One Device
A single Monash University chip can now generate, route and read information carried by light — solving a stubborn obstacle that has held back the field of valleytronics for years.
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IBM Unveils First Sub-1nm Chip With 100 Billion Transistors
Big Blue says its new ‘‘nanostack’’ 3D architecture packs roughly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized die, redrawing the roadmap past the 1-nanometer barrier.
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Singapore Scientists Crack Solvent-Free Recycling for Mixed Plastic Packaging
An NTU Singapore team has developed a chemical-free way to separate and reuse the layered plastic films that dominate food packaging — a stream most recyclers reject today.
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Fraunhofer Solar Module Hits World-Record 34.4% Efficiency
A new III-V germanium solar module using shingle-matrix technology and space-grade cells sets a new world efficiency benchmark — and was unveiled at Intersolar Europe in Munich.
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Battery-Free Chip Turns Sunlight and CO2 Into Clean Fuel
Osaka Metropolitan University researchers built a self-regulating artificial photosynthesis device that makes formic acid from CO2 and sunlight — no battery, no expensive control electronics.
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GM's New LMR Battery Could Cut EV Costs 40% — and It's Built in America
GM is betting big on lithium-manganese-rich battery chemistry that promises high energy density at LFP-level prices, with US production aimed at large EV trucks and SUVs.
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Cheese and Tofu Waste Turned Into Tiny CO2-Capturing Beads
ETH Zurich scientists turned dairy and tofu by-products into porous protein beads that captured 97 mg of CO2 per gram in lab tests, outperforming many existing systems.
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A New Crystal Could Make Ultrathin AR Glasses and Smart Contacts Real
Scientists have mapped a layered crystal that bends light more strongly than any material before measured, opening a path to genuinely slim AR glasses and smart contact lenses.
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New Solar System Turns Seawater Into Fresh Water — and Skips the Toxic Brine
University of Rochester engineers built a sunlight-driven desalination rig that produces drinking water and harvests minerals without dumping salty waste back into the ocean.
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Monash Builds a Tiny Chip That Computes With Light, Not Electricity
Australian researchers have packed multiple optical functions onto a single chip, opening a path to faster, lower-power computing — and quantum-inspired tech that runs at room temperature.
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Inventor's Laundry Filter Is Already Pulling Tons of Microfibers From Wastewater
A simple add-on for home washing machines is trapping the synthetic threads that escape every wash, keeping plastic-based fibres out of rivers, oceans and tap water.
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A Stamp-Sized Sensor Could Make Every Flight Through Winter Safer
University of Surrey engineers have built a 3-cm sensor that warns pilots the moment ice starts forming on a wing — a problem that has eluded reliable, lightweight detection for decades.
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New Gene Test Could Spare Two-Thirds of Breast Cancer Patients from Chemo
A 4,000-person international trial of the Prosigna genomic test found that most early breast cancer patients can safely skip chemotherapy with no loss in five-year survival.
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mRNA Cancer Vaccine Cuts Melanoma Recurrence by 49% After Five Years
New five-year data from the KEYNOTE-942 trial shows Moderna's personalized mRNA vaccine intismeran, paired with Keytruda, nearly halves the risk of melanoma returning after surgery.
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Tennessee Becomes Latest State to Make Data Centers Pay Their Full Power Bill
A new Tennessee law shifts the cost of upgrading the grid for massive AI data centers onto the data centers themselves, keeping ordinary residential rates from absorbing the bill.
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NASA Unveils First 3 Moon Base Missions to the Lunar South Pole
NASA's new Moon Base initiative will send Blue Origin, Astrobotic and partner agencies to the Moon's south pole this year, laying the groundwork for a semi-permanent human outpost.
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A 'Magnetic Surfboard' for Freight Could Cut Rail Emissions to Zero
A Polish-led engineering team has built a magnetic-levitation system that retrofits existing rail lines, moving freight without locomotives, diesel, or new tracks.
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Inside the 5-Acre London Site Rescuing the City’s Wood, Brick and Steel
Yes Make’s Newham salvage yard — the UK’s largest — is keeping mahogany, teak, century-old sequoia and reclaimed Douglas fir out of London’s dumps and back into new buildings.