Scientists created a paint so black it makes cars look like silhouettes
A new carbon nanotube composite absorbs 99.9% of visible light
The FBI built a fake town in Alabama to study and simulate real-world cyberattacks
More than 200 servers power simulations to stress-test America's digital infrastructure
Researchers are turning old Pixel phones into a data center – and they outperform some server hardware
Old smartphones are piling up as e-waste, but wait... 25 phones can match a single server CPU
Forward-looking: Researchers at the University of California San Diego are testing whether retired smartphones can still do useful work instead of ending up as electronic waste. Working with Google, the team is trying to turn retired Pixel smartphones into a low-cost data center. The goal is to keep working hardware in use instead of throwing it out after a few upgrade cycles.
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
This soundbar can be hijacked over Bluetooth to control your computer, no pairing required
A flaw in the Sound Blaster Katana V2X lets nearby attackers flash custom firmware and type on your computer
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
Researchers found a way to spy on your browsing by watching your SSD's activity
The FROST side-channel attack turns storage requests into a tool for detecting background apps, open tabs, and user behavior
Researchers hit 112Gbps over wireless in a breakthrough that could shape 6G
100Gbps-class wireless communication could be the next big thing
Looking ahead: Researchers at Japan's Tokushima University, the University of Tokyo, and Gifu University have developed a terahertz wireless communication system capable of transmitting data at 112Gbps in the 560GHz band. This is significantly faster than the few-gigabit-per-second data rates typically achieved by conventional terahertz communication systems operating at similar frequencies.
ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers with AI slop
LLM or not, paper authors will be responsible for whatever they post to the archive
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
A major study claiming ChatGPT improves student learning has been retracted
The most-cited evidence that ChatGPT helps students learn just fell apart
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 Harvard study shows AI model can outperform physicians in emergency room diagnoses
The hard part is figuring out what to do with that
Nvidia research promises 2x to 3x faster path tracing with better visuals
Experimental improvements improve image quality in between half and one-third of the frame time
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
Typing with your brain might soon be as simple as wearing a beanie
High-density EEG sensors and AI models aim to decode internal speech without implants
New self-healing material can repair itself over 1,000 times, extend the lifespan of cars and aircraft
The invention is being described as a game changer for multiple critical applications
New terahertz technique lets engineers see inside running processors in real time
Modified lab equipment can map transistor activity inside a live processor without touching it
New Rowhammer attack can grant kernel-level control on Nvidia workstation GPUs
ECC offers only limited protection
Google offers researchers early access to Willow quantum processor
Google is inviting proposals for hands-on experiments to push Willow beyond simulations