The US government wants a working quantum computer by 2028 and quantum-resistant encryption by 2031
Trump just signed two executive orders setting hard deadlines for quantum capabilities
Silicon Valley's longevity drug obsession is facing its first real reality check
From Rapamycin to ketone supplements, scientists say the evidence was never there
Scientists created a paint so black it makes cars look like silhouettes
A new carbon nanotube composite absorbs 99.9% of visible light
The FDA just cleared a maggot-based wound treatment from a Singapore startup
A second species of medical maggot is now cleared to do this messy job
Scientists made espresso with sound instead of heat, and most drinkers couldn't tell the difference
Ultrasonic espresso could cut coffee energy use by 75%
Midjourney wants to scan your body with half a million ultrasonic sensors, at a spa
The AI image company's next act
This jacket can harvest drinking water from the air like a real-life Dune stillsuit
Unlike Dune's fictional stillsuits, this jacket collects water from humidity rather than recycling sweat and urine
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is launching August 30, eight months ahead of schedule
Its 300.8-megapixel camera covers 100 times more sky than Hubble in a single shot
Birds in Ukraine are building nests from discarded drone fiber-optic cables
The Donbas discovery shows wildlife adapting to the waste of drone warfare
A truck-mounted nuclear reactor that runs for decades without refueling is being tested in China
The 10-megawatt mobile reactor can go to computing sites, remote regions, and industrial facilities
This solar-powered desalination device turns seawater into drinking water, can also extract lithium
Breakthrough solar desalination system produces fresh water without brine waste
Mathematicians used Minecraft mobs to calculate Pi without writing a single line of code
A slime-powered experiment turned creature movement and item drops into a Monte Carlo simulation
Moore's law is hitting a wall, so researchers are stacking silicon chip layers instead of shrinking them
University of Illinois team stacks three active silicon layers on a single chip, achieving 98-100% transistor yield
Forward-looking: For years, the chip industry has chased better performance by shrinking transistors and squeezing more of them onto a flat slice of silicon. That strategy is running into hard limits. A group at the University of Illinois thinks the next gains will come not from going smaller, but from going vertical.
MIT researchers found a way to get lithium out of hard rock without the massive energy bill
Cutting lithium extraction costs nearly in half could change the economics of EV batteries
This startup wants to destroy cancer tumors using ultrasound instead of surgery
The FDA-approved treatment uses focused sound waves to mechanically break down tumors
The US government is spending $2 billion on quantum computing, while taking stock in the companies it funds
IBM gets $1 billion, with the rest spread across eight firms under the Chips Act
Researchers built a switch 1,000 times faster than today's AI chips, and it barely generates any heat
University of Tokyo's antiferromagnetic spintronic switch operates at picosecond speeds
A stainless steel breakthrough could slash the cost of green hydrogen production
Making expensive titanium components obsolete
NASA's next Mars helicopters tested beyond the speed of sound
Flying in the thin atmosphere of Mars is "just about the hardest thing you can do"
Scientists create "living plastic" that can self-destruct on command
Dormant bacteria embedded in the material wake up to digest it from the inside
This new material could make carbon capture dramatically cheaper by cutting the energy needed to run it
A Japanese team engineered carbon materials that release CO2 below 60°C – low enough to run entirely on industrial waste heat
A startup says it can replace home sprinklers with sound waves. Fire safety experts say show us the data
Sonic Fire Tech uses inaudible low-frequency sound waves to suppress flames without water
This ultra-cheap, water-based iron battery could last 16 years without degrading
The all-iron flow battery completed 6,000 cycles with no measurable capacity loss
Forward-looking: Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, but their cost, supply chain issues, and potential to fail in fiery ways make them less than ideal for grid-scale energy storage. Chinese researchers say they have taken a major step toward an alternative in the form of an all-iron flow battery built from cheap, abundant materials and a water-based electrolyte that cannot explode.
A Harvard study shows AI model can outperform physicians in emergency room diagnoses
The hard part is figuring out what to do with that
Researchers are using ultrasound to trigger smell directly in the brain for VR
Early prototype bypasses chemicals and stimulates the olfactory bulb directly, hinting at a new path for immersive VR