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Today so far 2026-09-14 · 18:00 UTC

A brain implant has enabled people with paralysis to speak and gesture simultaneously, representing a significant breakthrough in neurotechnology for restoring communication abilities. Beyond medical advances, scientists are making discoveries across diverse fields, from two unusual new forms of ice that could exist within planets to insights into human imagination gleaned from studying people who cannot visualize, while also addressing pressing environmental concerns such as emergency measures needed to protect sea life during El Niño.

NASA Pivots Artemis Program Toward Building Permanent Base on the Moon

The agency has outlined a three-phase plan for lunar infrastructure and says the effort will serve as a proving ground for future missions to Mars.

2026-03-25 · 02:01 UTC
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First Working Quantum Battery Proves Bigger Really Does Mean Faster

2026-03-19 · 19:41

Australian researchers built a battery that charges in femtoseconds, stores energy for nanoseconds, and gets faster the…

Quantum Computing Isn't Just Coming for Bitcoin—It Threatens Messaging Apps Too

2026-03-10 · 23:55

Experts warn that encrypted chats could face a “harvest now, decrypt later” risk as quantum computing advances.

A study mentions a brain mesh caused by intensive use of AI

2026-03-09 · 16:05

Artificial intelligence was supposed to free workers from tedious tasks and boost their productivity.

Human Brain Cells Learn to Play Doom in Cortical Labs Experiment

2026-03-03 · 01:27

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological…

Scientists Turn Milk Protein Into a Biodegradable Plastic Alternative—Here's How

2026-03-02 · 22:29

Researchers combined milk protein, starch, and volcanic clay to create a biodegradable packaging film that degrades in…

WLS 2026 Opens in Dubai with Mobius Forum on Day One, Co-Hosted by KuCoin

2026-02-02 · 12:46

Dubai, UAE, February 2, 2026 The World Laureates Summit 2026 (WLS 2026) officially opened today in Dubai.

Scientists Crammed a Computer Into a Robot the Size of a Grain of Salt

2026-01-08 · 20:44

Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and…

Analyst Hints at Shadow Quantum Race Between China and US

2026-01-06 · 09:30

Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards suggested that the U.S.

Novo Nordisk Launches $149 Wegovy Pill, Expanding Access to GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs

2026-01-05 · 20:43

The once-daily Wegovy pill became the first oral GLP-1 approved for weight loss in the U.S., offering an alternative to…

Emerge's 2025 Project of the Year: The Deep-Sea Machine That Caught an Ultra High-Energy Ghost

2025-12-26 · 16:01

Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass…

The Fountain of Youth for Your Brain Might Be a Strategy Video Game

2025-12-22 · 20:01

New research suggests complex cognitive challenges, from StarCraft II to musical training, can slow neural aging by…

Study Maps Data Centers in Hot Climates Across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

2025-12-20 · 19:30

A new global analysis finds that hundreds of the world’s data centers are operating in climates that are too hot for…

AI Helped Researchers Block a Virus Before Infection Began

2025-12-15 · 22:52

Washington State University researchers are using AI and simulations to pinpoint a single molecular interaction that…

Transhumanism Branded a 'Death Cult' as Thinkers Clash Over Humanity's Future

2025-12-14 · 17:59

A public debate exposed deep divides over whether using technology to defeat aging and death would save humanity or…

NASA Insists Interstellar Visitor Is ‘Just a Comet’ as Public Speculation Lingers

2025-11-20 · 01:30

Agency officials said data showed nothing unusual about Comet 3I Atlas despite weeks of speculation.

Blue Origin Marks First Ocean Landing of New Glenn Booster After Second Attempt

2025-11-14 · 00:48

Blue Origin has landed its New Glenn booster at sea after launching NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission.

Man Clones Best Friend: Tom Brady’s New Pup Is a Copy of the Original

2025-11-07 · 01:05

Colossal Bioscience has cloned former NFL star Tom Brady's dog, drawing the ire from some who are calling for a…

Why the 'Atomic Blue Dogs' of Chernobyl Are Good for Science

2025-10-28 · 18:56

A genetic study of canines living in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone separates myth from a potential breakthrough in…

Stanford’s Light-Powered Eye Chip Brings Sight Back to the Blind

2025-10-23 · 00:43

In a medical first, Stanford scientists have restored functional vision to patients with advanced macular degeneration…

Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code

2025-10-15 · 20:36

DeepMind’s 27-billion-parameter “Cell2Sentence-Scale” model spotted a drug combination that made tumors more visible to…

Satellites are leaking your data worse than coffee shop WiFi: Researchers

2025-10-14 · 06:00

Researchers were able to read text messages and even traffic for military systems and infrastructure with just a few…

When Robots Look Human, People Feel Safer—Until They Don't

2025-10-12 · 20:01

Researchers found that the closer robots get to looking human, the less people want them to.

Scientists Who Brought Quantum Weirdness to the Real World Win Nobel Prize in Physics

2025-10-07 · 16:58

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics honors a trio whose 1980s experiments made quantum circuits—and today’s quantum…

Researchers Build Microscopic Gears Powered by Light in Milestone for Nano-Scale Machines

2025-09-28 · 21:01

Breakthrough “metamachines” show how beams of light can drive gears and levers smaller than a grain of dust—opening…

Caltech Builds World’s Largest Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer

2025-09-28 · 18:01

Researchers kept more than 6,000 qubits coherent while operating with 99.98% accuracy.

AI Has Designed Living Genomes—And They Worked in the Lab

2025-09-26 · 18:01

In a landmark experiment, Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used “genome language models” to write and build 16 new…

New AI System Predicts Risk of 1,000 Diseases Years in Advance

2025-09-22 · 23:20

Delphi-2M reads your medical history like a language model reads text—and forecasts health problems 20 years out with…

A Google AI solves a famously impossible mathematical problem

2025-09-20 · 07:44

When equations shipwreck, a Google AI comes to the rescue.

Google DeepMind AI Cracks Century-Old Fluid Mysteries, Pointing to New Era in Science

2025-09-19 · 18:38

Google's DeepMind uncovered surprising solutions to the equations governing fluid dynamics, potentially accelerating…

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