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Evidence-led coverage of biotechnology, AI infrastructure, energy, robotics, devices and brain–computer interfaces.
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MIT’s Tiny Mechanical Neuron Stores Memory in a Soft Spring
A soft material squeezed between two electrodes can remember its recent history. MIT researchers are using that behaviour to explore a different kind of computing.
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CERN’s Antimatter Road Trip Kept Every Particle Intact
A truck carried 92 antiprotons around CERN and returned with all of them. The real prize is a quieter place to investigate the Universe.
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Stanford’s 37,000 AI Agents Are Hunting for Better Drugs
A virtual research organisation can divide drug-discovery work among thousands of AI agents. Its most interesting result is a testable idea, not a medicine ready for patients.
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Western Australia’s Rocks Could Become Hydrogen Factories
Hot water and an iron-rich mineral can generate hydrogen. New attention on an Australian study reveals why the shape of the rock may matter as much as its chemistry.
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AI’s Next Bottleneck Is Hiding Between the Chips
The AI race needs more than faster processors. A new Marvell–GlobalFoundries agreement puts the connections between them in the spotlight.
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This Robot Crosses Land and Water by Moving Its Own Weight
WorMa uses water inside its body to change how it grips, climbs and swims. The prototype offers an inventive answer to a problem that starts where one kind of terrain ends.
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Scientists Built a Computer That Finds Answers in a Droplet
A DNA-based system uses molecular assembly to carry out calculations. Its attraction is a different way of computing, with clear limits on speed and practical use.
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Tomorrow’s AI Chips Have an Electricity Problem at the Atomic Scale
Researchers have found a way to feed electrical charge into two kinds of ultrathin transistor using one material. It tackles a small interface with large implications for future chips.
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Europe’s Satellites Just Passed a Test Against Fake Navigation Signals
Galileo has demonstrated a new way to check that a position is trustworthy under spoofing conditions. The achievement matters far beyond the blue dot on a phone screen.
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Australia’s New Grid Battery Gives Solar Power a Longer Shift
A Brisbane industrial site is putting sodium-sulfur storage to work. The installation offers a practical look at keeping useful solar energy available beyond the middle of the day.
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Nvidia’s New 84GB Graphics Card Makes Memory the Main Event
Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 puts a striking amount of memory on one card. The interesting part is what that extra room could let AI teams do—and what it does not prove about speed.
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Perplexity’s Windows AI Agent Puts Your RTX PC to Work—With a 24GB Catch
Perplexity Portable Computer now supports Windows RTX PCs. Local workflows are the attraction; the 24GB GPU-memory requirement is the catch.