Tech

DARPA sets new records for sending power wirelessly

Looking forward to a future where laser beams replace power lines, DAPRA’s Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program has set new records for...

Supersonic flight is returning to the US after a half-century ban

More than 20 years after the last commercial Concorde flight, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to repeal the ban...

Compact machine turns air into ready-to-use gasoline

Transforming clean fuel production with modular direct air capture technology Recently, Aircela, a fuel company headquartered in New York, publicly demonstrated a machine in Manhattan...

5 Cultivated Meat Advantages: Cultivating the Future of Meat

There is a lot of discussion these days about the negative effects of eating meat, from harming animals to driving climate change. But in...

Novel charging module brings EV top-ups to the curbside

We’ve seen a bunch curbside chargers that enable apartment dwellers to join the electric revolution without having to always top up away from home,...

Dawn Aerospace is selling spaceplanes direct to customers, like airliners

Dawn Aerospace seems to want to play with the big kids as it announces that it will be selling its spaceplane directly to customers...

Bioprinted organs ‘10–15 years away,’ says startup regenerating dog skin

Human organs could be bioprinted for transplants within 10 years, according to Lithuanian startup Vital3D. But before reaching human hearts and kidneys, the company...

New biosensor solves old quantum riddle

Many of the best, most powerful quantum sensors can be created in small bits of diamond, but that leads to a separate issue: It’s...

Plan to harvest helium-3 from lunar surface reaches prototyping milestone

A US startup is looking to our closest satellite to fill a resources gap here on Earth. Helium-3 is rare on terra firma, but...

Controlling quantum motion and hyper-entanglement

One nagging factor in this line of work has been the normal jiggling motion of atoms, which make the systems harder to control. Now,...

A dental floss that can measure stress

Now a Tufts interdisciplinary engineer and his team have devised a simple device using specially designed floss that can easily and accurately measure cortisol,...

‘Superwood’ that’s 50% stronger than steel is coming this year

Maryland-based startup InventWood is set to mass-produce the first batches of ‘Superwood,’ a new material made of modified timber that’s stronger than regular barky...

Anthropic’s new AI model threatened to reveal engineer’s affair to avoid being shut down

Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4 often turned to blackmail to avoid being shut down in a fictional test. The model threatened to reveal private...

Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, even with their eyes closed

“Our research opens up the potential for non-invasive wearable devices to give people super-vision,” says senior author Tian Xue, a neuroscientist at the University...

Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

Now a team from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has developed an image-analysis tool that cuts through the ocean’s optical effects...

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

China has launched the first 12 satellites of a planned 2,800-strong orbital supercomputer satellite network, reports Space News. The satellites, created by the company...