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Google Launches Co-Scientist, an AI Research Partner for Real Labs
At I/O 2026, Google unveiled Gemini for Science and Co-Scientist — multi-agent AI tools built to help working researchers generate hypotheses, plan experiments, and accelerate breakthroughs.
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NASA's New Space Chip Is 500× Faster Than Today's
The palm-sized HPSC processor could let future spacecraft think for themselves during deep-space missions to the Moon and Mars.
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Penn Built a Light-Matter Particle That Could Make AI Chips 1,000x More Efficient
University of Pennsylvania physicists demonstrated all-light switching using only 4 femtojoules of energy — a step toward photonic AI chips that skip electrons entirely.
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Shanghai Robot Lifts 5,000 kg, Doubles the Guinness Load Record
Shanghai Chaifu's CR5000-3700 industrial robot hoisted over 5,000 kilograms in Jinshan district, setting a new Guinness World Record and more than doubling the 2016 mark.
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AI Breakthrough Cuts Energy Use 100x Without Losing Accuracy
A Tufts University team showed that pairing classic symbolic logic with neural networks can match or beat large vision-language models on robotic tasks while using up to 100 times less energy.
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AlphaFold Spin-Off Raises $2.1B to Hunt Drugs With AI
Isomorphic Labs, the DeepMind offshoot built around Nobel Prize–winning AlphaFold, just landed one of the biggest funding rounds in AI biotech to scale its drug pipeline.
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All-Perovskite Solar Cells Crack 30% Efficiency for the First Time
Chinese researchers have built the first all-perovskite tandem solar cell to surpass 30% certified efficiency, a milestone that pushes the cheap, flexible technology past long-time leader silicon.
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AI Cuts Wildlife Camera-Trap Analysis from a Year to Days
A WSU and Google study shows fully automated AI matches human experts on 85–90% of camera-trap conclusions — compressing months of conservation work into a handful of days.
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Stanford's Fingertip-Sized Chip Boosts Light 100x With Tiny Power Draw
A new Stanford optical amplifier the size of a fingertip can intensify light signals 100-fold on a few hundred milliwatts — small enough to run on a battery and fit inside a smartphone.
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World's First E-Bike With Semi-Solid-State Battery Just Launched
Ride1Up's new Revv1 EVO is the first production e-bike to ship with a semi-solid-state battery, promising higher energy density, better cold-weather performance and improved safety over standard lithium cells.
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CATL Unveils EV Battery That Charges in 6 Minutes for 1,500 km
The world's largest battery maker has revealed a third-generation Shenxing pack that adds 1,500 kilometers of range in roughly the time it takes to fill a gas tank.
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New 25-Nanometer Memory Chip Gets More Efficient as It Shrinks
Researchers at Science Tokyo built a hafnium-oxide memory device that overturns a 50-year-old assumption — one that has constrained chip design for decades.
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New Device Detects 'Forever Chemicals' in Water in Minutes, Not Days
A Boise State and Pearlhill Technologies device spots PFAS in water samples on the spot at trace levels — slashing testing time and cost compared with lab analysis.
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Cambridge Spin-Out Raises $10M to Replace Refrigerant Gas With Solid-State Cooling
Barocal's new technology cools without climate-warming gases and targets a $450 billion HVAC market — including the data centers driving demand to triple by 2050.
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Tufts AI Cuts Energy Use 100x by Reasoning Like a Human
Tufts engineers built a robot brain that combines neural networks with old-school symbolic reasoning, slashing energy use by up to 100x while improving accuracy on real-world tasks.
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Germany Just Turned Its Old Coal Mines Into Europe's Biggest Lake Landscape
After 60 years of flooding, the final lake in Germany's 14,000-hectare Lusatian Lakeland opens for swimming this month — turning brown-coal craters into a watery network nearly the size of Lake Como.
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New Memory Chip Keeps Working at 700°C — Hotter Than Molten Lava
Engineers built a memory device from beta-gallium-oxide that holds data at 700°C, well past the temperature where ordinary silicon gives up — a leap toward electronics that can run inside engines, on Venus, or in geothermal wells.
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New Iron Battery Lasts 6,000 Cycles With Almost Zero Decay
Chinese researchers have unveiled an all-iron flow battery that ran 6,000 charge cycles without measurable capacity loss — a milestone that could finally make cheap, long-duration grid storage practical.
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New Brain-Inspired Chip From Cambridge Cuts AI Energy Use by 70%
A new memristor built from a special form of hafnium oxide can store and process information in the same place — slashing the biggest energy cost in modern AI hardware.
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Northwestern Scientists Build a Fuel Cell That Runs on Dirt
Engineers at Northwestern have built a soil-powered fuel cell that uses natural bacteria to generate steady electricity for underground sensors — no batteries, no solar panels, no recharging required.
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Google Unveils 8th-Gen TPUs Built for the Age of AI Agents
Google Cloud Next 2026 introduced TPU 8t and TPU 8i — two custom chips for training and inference that promise up to 2x better performance per watt and support pods of 1,152 chips.
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Clean Energy Just Outgrew Global Electricity Demand for the First Time
A new Ember report shows renewables added more power in 2025 than the world's entire rise in electricity use — a historic tipping point in the energy transition.
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Apple Hits 100% Recycled Materials in Three Categories — a First
The company's 2026 Environmental Progress Report details record recycled content, a 70% water-reuse anodization process, and emissions down 60% since 2015.