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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.
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Robot Beats Human Half-Marathon Record in 50 Minutes
A humanoid robot named Lightning blazed through Beijing's half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — nearly seven minutes faster than the human world record.
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IonQ Links Two Quantum Computers With Light for the First Time
The quantum computing company photonically connected two independent trapped-ion systems using entanglement — a first for commercial quantum hardware.
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NVIDIA Open-Sources First AI Models for Quantum Computing
NVIDIA's new Ising model family automates quantum processor calibration and delivers 2.5x faster error correction — and it's free for anyone to use.
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Eavor's Closed-Loop Geothermal Wins CleanTech of the Year
Canadian startup Eavor's underground loop system can harvest Earth's heat anywhere — no fracking, no water, no volcanic hotspot required.
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Solar Panels That Generate Power From Raindrops? It Works.
Spanish scientists have created a thin-film coating that lets solar panels harvest energy from both sunlight and falling rain — with a single drop producing over 100 volts.
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GEN-1 Robot AI Hits 99% Reliability Folding, Packing, and Fixing Things
Generalist's new physical AI model can fold laundry, pack phones, and service vacuums at production-level accuracy — and recover from mistakes on its own.
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Water-From-Air Tech Wins CleanTech Innovation Award
AirJoule's platform uses Nobel Prize-winning materials to extract pure drinking water from humid air — no pipes, wells, or infrastructure needed.
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Scientists Build First Quantum Battery That Charges With Light
Australian researchers built a laser-charged quantum battery that gets faster as it grows — flipping how conventional energy storage works.
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New Chip-Making Machine Prints 8nm Features in a Single Step
ASML's latest EUV lithography system can pack 2.9x more transistors per chip — a leap driven by surging AI demand.
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Samsung Posts Record $33B Quarterly Profit on AI Chip Boom
A six-fold jump in operating profit makes Q1 2026 Samsung's best quarter ever, driven by insatiable demand for AI memory chips.
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New Carbon Material Releases CO2 at 60°C, Slashing Capture Costs
Japanese scientists engineered 'viciazites' — carbon materials with precisely placed nitrogen atoms that capture CO2 and release it using barely any heat.