Read More 2026-07-21 Why Artificial Intelligence May Never Think Like Humans Peter J. Denning argues that tacit, embodied, and cultural knowledge may prevent AI from ever thinking like humans. This article explains the representation problem, risks for alignment, and possible research paths.
Read More 2026-07-20 Earth's Spacetime Twist Measured to 0.2% by LARES-2 LARES-2, a reflective spherical satellite, allowed scientists to measure Earth’s frame-dragging effect with 0.2 percent uncertainty, confirming Einstein’s prediction and tightening limits on alternative gravity theories.
Read More 2026-07-11 A Tiny Chemical Trick That Could Shrink Future Chips A Princeton-led simulation study shows that coating molybdenum disulfide with oxygen or fluorine makes plasma etching selective enough to remove just the top sulfur layer, widening the manufacturing window for future, smaller chips.
Read More 2026-07-07 Robots Learn to Feel with Color-Shifting Tactile Skin Queen Mary University researchers turned touch into color, letting ordinary cameras detect pressure patterns on soft robotic skin. The method promises cheaper, faster tactile sensing for prosthetics, industry, and surgery.
Read More 2026-07-06 How Italian Students Built the World's Largest Paper Plane University of Pisa students set a new Guinness record with ICARUS, a 20 meter wingspan paper airplane that flew 59 meters. The project used aircraft engineering principles, honeycomb paper structures and extensive testing.
Read More 2026-07-05 Dom van Keulen: Lost Dutch Ship Laden with Moroccan Gold A cache of 17th-century Moroccan gold linked a lost Dutch merchant ship to North African trade. Archaeology, coins and archives identify the wreck as the Dom van Keulen and illuminate early modern commerce.
Read More 2026-07-05 UC Berkeley's Electric Nose Could Transform Food Safety UC Berkeley engineers built an 'electric nose' using 16 carbon-nanotube sensors and machine learning to detect spoiled food and trace allergens with about 93% accuracy; could power smart fridges and portable apps.
Read More 2026-07-02 Diamond Quantum Sensor Could Reveal Altermagnets' Secrets A diamond-based quantum sensing method could reveal altermagnets, a newly identified class of magnetic materials that combine antiferromagnetic cancellation with ferromagnetic-like electronic behavior.
Read More 2026-07-01 How a 17-Million-Year-Old Egyptian Ape Reshapes Ape Origins A lower jaw found in Wadi Moghra reveals Masripithecus moghraensis, a 17–18 million-year-old ape from North Africa whose anatomy and placement challenge ideas about where modern apes originated and dispersed.
Read More 2026-06-29 Electrochemical Bath Restores 95% of Lithium Battery Capacity Cornell researchers developed an electrochemical bath that restores up to 95% of lithium-ion battery capacity by dissolving excess SEI layers on intact electrodes, cutting recycling costs and environmental impact.
Read More 2026-06-27 Sunlight Upconverted into UV: A Solid-State Breakthrough Kyushu University researchers engineered a solid organic material that converts visible sunlight into UV via triplet-triplet annihilation, achieving 1.9% upconversion under natural sunlight and opening paths for solar-driven UV applications.
Read More 2026-06-27 How a Stretchable AI Patch Lets Skin Act Like a Doctor Researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne built a stretchable, skin-like AI patch that runs neuromorphic computing on the body, enabling millisecond cardiac mapping and accurate health-risk prediction.
Read More 2026-06-27 How Shannon Entropy Cracked 99% of Wordle Games Worldwide Researchers at Binghamton University applied Shannon entropy to Wordle, creating an entropy-first strategy that solved 99% of puzzles in simulations by selecting guesses that maximize expected information gain.
Read More 2026-06-16 Finland's Sand Battery: 85% Efficiency and Big Savings Finland's demonstration sand battery stored renewable heat with over 85% efficiency in its first year, cutting local heating emissions by about 70% and eliminating oil use—showing a practical path for decarbonising district heating.
Read More 2026-06-10 Molecular Water Armor: Fabrics That Clean with Water Scientists developed an ultrathin polymer coating that organizes water into a 'molecular armor' on fabrics, allowing common stains to wash away with plain water and cutting laundry water and energy by over 82 percent.
Read More 2026-06-08 Single DNA Letter Rewires Sex in Mice: Regulatory Switch A tiny change — a single DNA base in a non-coding enhancer called Enh13 — can flip sexual development in mice by unleashing Sox9. The study highlights regulatory DNA's role in sex determination and implications for DSD diagnostics.
Read More 2026-06-07 Yale's Artificial Leaf Turns Airborne CO2 into Methanol Yale scientists built an artificial leaf that uses only sunlight, water, and air to convert CO2 into methanol. The system uses a six-electron catalyst and a silicon photoelectrode to achieve record efficiency for solar-driven methanol production.
Read More 2026-06-02 210-Million-Year-Old Croc Relative Discovered in New Mexico A new crocodile relative, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, has been identified from a 210-million-year-old Ghost Ranch fossil. CT scans reveal a short-snouted predator that coexisted with Hesperosuchus, shedding light on early croc diversification.
Read More 2026-06-01 Programmable Living Plastics That Self-Destruct in Six Days Scientists embedded engineered Bacillus subtilis and two enzymes into polycaprolactone to create living plastics that, when activated, fully degrade within six days without producing microplastics.
Read More 2026-06-01 Stanford's New iISM Microscope Reveals Living Cells Stanford researchers combined interferometric scattering and image-scanning techniques to create iISM, a label-free microscope that images living cells at ~120 nm resolution with lower illumination, enabling longer, gentler live-cell observation.
