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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.
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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.