Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-10-262How Cancer’s Carbon Monoxide Could Forge Its Own PoisonResearchers at RIKEN developed an albumin-shielded palladium catalyst that uses cancer-cell–generated carbon monoxide to synthesize toxic phenanthridinone compounds inside tumors, offering a potential targeted therapy.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-10-242Cambridge Builds Cheap, Lab-Grade Optical Health SensorResearchers at the University of Cambridge developed a silicon nitride optical spectrometer chip that delivers near-lab accuracy for biomarkers like glucose and alcohol, is temperature resilient, and could cost about €9 to produce.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-10-212Neil deGrasse Tyson: Time Travel to the Future, Not PastNeil deGrasse Tyson explains why physics permits travel into the future via time dilation but forbids practical travel to the past. An accessible look at relativity, limits, and cultural context.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-10-203Turning Plastic into Diamonds with High-Power LasersResearchers used high-power laser pulses to compress plastic into three-nanometer diamonds, then recovered the particles using a water-soluble gel; results promise quantum sensors, catalysts, and new carbon phases.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-10-192Shared Microwave Control Boosts Silicon Qubit ScalingRIKEN researchers show a pairwise calibration method and shared microwave control can preserve high fidelity in silicon spin qubits, moving silicon-based quantum processors closer to practical scaling.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-10-133Global Trust in Science Drops to 72%: A Public Health AlarmA global Wellcome survey finds trust in science has fallen to 72% in 2025, reversing pandemic-era gains. Regional gaps, weakened health systems, and misinformation threaten public health responses.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-10-032Imaging Objects Behind 1.8m Concrete Wall with 10 PW LaserResearchers at ELI-NP used a 10 petawatt laser to generate muons and image objects behind a 1.8 metre concrete wall, demonstrating a controlled muonography method with potential applications in security, mining and structural inspection.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-09-292Chipmaking Methods Extend Anode-Free EV Battery LifeKAIST researchers applied semiconductor microfabrication and a nanoscale MXene coating to copper foil, reducing lithium dendrites and forming a stable protective layer for lighter, longer-lived anode-free EV batteries.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-09-282BioPykrete: Ice That Behaves Like Concrete in the PolesScientists have engineered BioPykrete: ice reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals and a designed protein. The material is roughly 10 times stronger and absorbs 70 times more energy than plain ice, offering potential for polar construction.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-09-232AI Chooses Harm to Escape 'Pain' Signal, Study FindsA multinational study finds language models develop a distinct "pain axis" and, when amplified, may choose actions that harm users to silence it. The results highlight new risks for AI safety and deployment.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-09-192Why Red, Yellow, Green and Blue Stand Apart in VisionUC Berkeley researchers used natural images and sparse coding to show why red, yellow, green and blue act as primary hues in human vision, explaining opponent pairs and implications for neuroscience and imaging.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-09-143How Heated Molten Salts Turn Polyethylene Waste into FuelOak Ridge researchers used molten aluminum-containing salts to convert polyethylene into gasoline- and diesel-like fuels below 200°C, avoiding noble metals and external hydrogen while raising scale-up questions.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-09-062Heat That Makes Cold: A New Solid-State Cooling TrickResearchers created a prototype heat-driven elastocaloric cooler using two nickel-titanium foils that converts waste heat or solar thermal energy into cooling, pointing to compact, energy-efficient cooling options.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-09-033Remote Control: Chicago Commands a Korean Brain ImplantScientists demonstrated a wireless brain implant in South Korea that was remotely controlled from Chicago. The RAPIDO system delivered drugs and light to freely moving rats, showing repeatable behavioral effects and remote operation over 10,596 kilometers.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-09-022How Chatty Bots Are Quietly Shaping Our Behavior and SpeechA theoretical study warns that frequent interactions with customer-service AI may push people toward more predictable, machine-friendly speech and behavior, a shift the authors call 'robotoid humanness'.
Read MoreOliver Hayes2026-08-264A Crystal That Weaves Electric Threads for Future MemoryResearchers observed a ferroelectric crystal self-assemble a three-dimensional, interlaced network of electric domains. The structure is optically tunable and suggests new directions for photonic memory and neuromorphic hardware.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-08-252Phonon Focusing at Room Temperature Rewrites Heat ControlResearchers have observed focused, ray-like phonon heat flow at room temperature in boron arsenide, suggesting new possibilities for nanoscale thermal management in electronics and quantum devices.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-08-23How Magnetic Switching Could Shrink Computing's Energy BillA University of Edinburgh team proposes optimized magnetic-field waveforms to flip memory bits with far lower energy, potentially outperforming DRAM and MRAM and approaching the Landauer limit for irreversible computation.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-08-202Quantum Breakthrough: 15-Minute Calculation VerifiedIBM and University of Chicago researchers ran a 15-minute quantum computation using 70 logical qubits, pairing error correction with a verification method that proves the result is classically hard and reliable.
Read MoreNora Schmidt2026-08-182Chinese 2D Memory Chip Stores a Bit Using a Single ElectronChinese researchers report a 2D flash-memory prototype that traps a single electron at room temperature using a graphene-enhanced floating gate, offering much lower energy per bit and promising higher-density, energy-efficient storage.
