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Sodium-Ion Batteries Take Aim at Lithium With New Low-Cost EV Cells
A new generation of sodium-ion battery cells is matching lithium-iron-phosphate on key specs while using one of the most abundant elements on Earth — opening a cheaper, more resilient path to electric cars and grid storage.
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Scientists Find 'On-Off Switch' for Superconductivity in Twisted Graphene
An Ohio State team can flip superconductivity on and off in twisted bilayer graphene by tuning its surroundings — a step toward the long-sought goal of room-temperature electronics with zero energy loss.
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Apple Brings AI-Powered Accessibility Across iPhone, Vision Pro and More
Apple's new accessibility wave uses Apple Intelligence to upgrade VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control, adds on-device subtitles to every video, and lets Vision Pro users drive a wheelchair with their eyes.
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New Lithium Method Pulls Battery Metal Straight From Brine — No Ponds
Columbia engineers unveiled S3E, a temperature-switching solvent that yanks lithium directly from underground brines — promising faster, cleaner EV battery supplies without years-long evaporation ponds.
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Finland Builds Sensor That Detects Energy Below a Zeptojoule
Researchers at Aalto University built a calorimeter that can detect energy pulses smaller than 0.83 zeptojoules — a milestone for quantum computing and the hunt for dark matter.
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OpenAI Model Cracks 80-Year-Old Erdős Math Problem
An OpenAI reasoning model disproved a long-standing conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős, finding new dot arrangements that beat what humans believed was the best possible.
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China's New Iron Battery Lasts 6,000 Cycles With No Capacity Loss
Researchers at the Institute of Metal Research built an all-iron flow battery that ran for 6,000 charge cycles — about 16 years of daily use — without measurable capacity decay, using cheap, abundant materials and a water-based electrolyte that cannot explode.
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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.