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NASA Fires Up Record-Breaking Plasma Thruster for Future Mars Missions

NASA just tested a blazing-hot plasma engine that could help carry humans to Mars. NASA’s experimental lithium-powered plasma thruster has cleared a major early test,...

Researchers Discover Efficient New Way To Split Hydrogen From Water for Energy

Researchers have developed a new catalyst that could make hydrogen production cheaper and more practical for renewable energy systems. Hydrogen has long been viewed as...

Switzerland is building the world’s most powerful redox flow battery

DropShip’s design draws directly from Pyka’s first-generation cargo platform, which has accumulated commercial cargo pedigree and participated in multiple Department of War operational exercises...

Pyka’s autonomous cargo plane completes first flight

Pyka’s DropShip autonomous cargo aircraft completed its first flight on April 27, 2026, six months after concept initiation, at the company’s Alameda, California base. The...

Ingenious unpowered sensor detects motion by generating ultrasound

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a passive motion/contact sensor that detects motion using only sound. Without electricity, electronics, or batteries....

Scientists Just Built a Quantum Battery That Charges Almost Instantly

Australian researchers have achieved a major milestone in energy storage by designing and testing what is believed to be the world’s first proof-of-concept quantum...

Quantum Breakthrough: New Algorithm Solves “Impossible” Materials in Seconds

A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling rapid analysis of structures that were previously...

Interview: The avionics suite designed to let anyone fly a plane

California-based aerospace company Airhart Aeronautics recently completed test flights of its new cockpit avionics suite for small planes at the company’s Long Beach facility....

Seeing the Invisible: Scientists Develop New Way To Track Particles in 3D

Physicists are rethinking how to detect elusive particles like neutrinos by combining existing technologies in unconventional ways. Progress in physics often comes from unexpected combinations...

Nanogenerator harvests electricity from evaporating seawater

Imagine a device using an energy source the size of planet Earth, and offering nearly limitless electricity with no ecologically devastating mining required to...

Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe

Rail networks are vast, which makes it difficult to conduct comprehensive, continuous safety monitoring. Researchers in China have suggested analyzing the vibrations of existing...

Quantum Breakthrough: Unhackable Keys Sent Over 120 km Using Quantum Dots

Quantum dot–based time-bin QKD achieves stable, long-distance secure communication with practical performance. Quantum key distribution is the most advanced area of quantum cryptography and offers...

Revolutionary Imaging Technique Unlocks Secrets of Matter at Extreme Speeds

A novel imaging method captures ultrafast events with unprecedented detail by combining laser encoding and AI reconstruction. Researchers have introduced a new imaging method that...

Scientists develop dirt-powered fuel cell that could replace batteries

This soil-powered system is designed to run underground sensors used in precision agriculture and environmental monitoring. It offers a potential alternative to traditional batteries,...

Steel rebar may have met its match – in the form of wavy plastic

Who could possibly compare to Superman, the Man of Steel? Definitely not a man of plastic! Right? Wrong. Researchers at the University of Sharjah,...

Energy storage breakthrough traps sunlight in a molecule

We tend to think of sunlight as something temporary; here when the sun is up, gone when it moves to the other side of...