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Ancient-fossil bioconcrete traps 142% more carbon – and it’s strong as hell

Using intricate geometry found in nature and refined through aerospace and biomedical design, scientists have now 3D-printed these forms into concrete to boost strength...

Structural Battery Composites

Merging Energy and Engineering in Motion Structural battery composites (SBCs) integrate load-bearing mechanical components and rechargeable energy storage. This means structural battery composites can store...

Why the US and Europe could lose the race for fusion energy

Fusion energy holds the potential to shift a geopolitical landscape that is currently configured around fossil fuels. Harnessing fusion will deliver the energy resilience,...

United States Tackles Nuclear Waste

The United States’ 90,000-ton stockpile of radioactive nuclear waste has long been a liability, but researchers are increasingly eyeing it as a resource. New...

Human-made lightning harnessed to produce clean ammonia from air

We currently use a lot of ammonia to produce fertilizer, refrigerants, and other chemicals, and unfortunately rely heavily on an energy-intensive process developed in...

France’s VORTEX spaceplane to land like a jet, operate like a shuttle

What will the orbital spacecraft of tomorrow look like? If Dassault Aviation has its way, it could be similar to its Véhicule Orbital Réutilisable...

Cold Atoms, quantum lightbulbs and new radars: Thales shows off tech at Paris

PARIS AIR SHOW — At major aviation exhibitions like the one held at Le Bourget this week, the heavy hardware screaming through the skies...

Jetpack-strapping rescue robot achieves stable lift and hover

For the last few years, Italian engineers have been working on a humanoid robot for emergency response applications. The iRonCub3 has jets on its...

Quantum computers just got an upgrade – and it’s 10× more efficient

Bits, which are the building blocks of a conventional computer, can only ever have the value of 1 or 0. By contrast, the common...

Zuckerberg unveils new ‘superintelligence lab’

Meta has launched an AI division to pursue tech to exceed human capabilities Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs...

Breakthrough magnet design could transform MRI and magnetic levitation

Physicists Prof. Dr. Ingo Rehberg from the University of Bayreuth and Dr. Peter Blümler from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed and experimentally validated...

‘Beam-down’ solar reactor produces green hydrogen without electricity

Researchers at Australia’s national science agency have developed an efficient method to produce green hydrogen for energy-hungry, high-temperature industrial processes – and it starts...

‘Sweating’ paint keeps buildings cool even in hot and humid cities

A new kind of paint might be the key to cooling homes in humid climes like Singapore. Researchers based in the island country found...

This quantum sensor tracks 3D movement without GPS

The device, a new type of atom “interferometer,” could one day help people navigate submarines, spacecraft, cars and other vehicles more precisely. “Traditional atom interferometers...

Lifesaber is a survival tool for when the apocalypse finally arrives

What is an actual survival tool supposed to do? Sure, having a Swiss Army knife is all fun and games until you find yourself...

Newly observed magnetic state could unlock ultrafast memory chips

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated an entirely new form of magnetism in a synthesized crystalline material. They’re calling it p-wave magnetism. This...