Dec 13, 2024
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18 min read
Plus: Sodium-ion batteries make their big debut, muscle implants enable mind-controlled prosthetics, nanosheet transistors, a self-eating rocket, 3D-printed weapons, and more.
Dec 6, 2024
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Plus: NASA delays moon mission, U.S. cracks down on China's AI chip plans, China bans rare-earth exports after U.S. ban, massive 'glow' batteries to replace coal, turning human waste into medicine, and more.
Dec 1, 2024
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Plus: Japanese rocket explodes during test, Meta plots globe-spanning subsea cable, China has world's most powerful x-ray light source, a nanorobot hand made of DNA, and more.
Nov 22, 2024
16 min read
Plus: China takes lead in robot density, first CRISPR treatment making its way to patients, battery-free bioelectronic implants, nanorobots nearing first human clinical trials, and more.
Nov 15, 2024
Plus: Air Force orders more robot wingmen, DeepMind releases protein prediction code, detecting cancer in urine, DNA-trained AI that creates genomes from scratch, and more.
Nov 8, 2024
8 min read
Plus: Pentagon's first LLM defense contract, SpaceX plans Starship space refueling test, surgery-free neurotech memory booster, AI for nuclear fusion, and more.
Nov 1, 2024
14 min read
Plus: US Army fast-tracks weapons tech, Airdog unveils precision drone, OpenAI plans custom chip, plasma towers turning CO2 to fuel, Iceland's volcanic energy moonshot, and more.
Oct 25, 2024
13 min read
Plus: SpaceX hits 99th mission of 2024, FAA approves air taxi rules, China launches mega-satellite constellation, superconducting aircraft motor, DJI sues DOD, and more.
Oct 18, 2024
Plus: Diamond dust to cool the planet, space export rules get a shake-up, DARPA's artificial reefs, growing food on Mars, new quantum benchmarks, and more.
Oct 11, 2024
Plus: Air Force's mysterious spaceplane prepares for a novel maneuver, Taiwan's electricity problem, lunar material science, NOAA drops scientist’s ashes into the eye of a hurricane, and more.
Oct 4, 2024
Plus: SpaceX halts launches after Crew-9, nuclear power for AI data centers, Silicon Valley's first drone delivery service, an industrial sand battery, a homemade fusion reactor, and more.
Sep 27, 2024
Plus: AI revives zombie nuclear plants, Blue Origin hot fires an orbital rociet stage for the first time, inside the quantum computing arms race, Brainfuck CPU, stem cells reverse diabetes, and more.
