Robots can have trouble grasping the concept of “grasping.” It’s so bad that even a toddler’s…
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After 2,000 years of debate, Italy’s massive suspension bridge to Sicily may finally happen
Boasting 6,637 feet between its two towers, Turkey’s 1915 Çanakkale Bridge officially nabbed the title as…
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Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts
On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s controversial brain-computer interface startup Neuralink announced it received an independent review board’s…
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Spider silk stronger than Kevlar spun by an unlikely source
Researchers have coaxed common silkworms to spin a more durable, eco-friendlier spider silk—all it took was…
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Super-thin ‘mirror membranes’ could lead the way to bigger space telescopes
It took years of design and engineering toil to successfully get the largest-ever telescope mirror into…
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Neuralink is searching for its first human test subjects
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface startup, is seeking human volunteers to participate in its first clinical…
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The International Criminal Court was hit with a cyberattack
The International Criminal Court revealed malicious actors illegally accessed its computer systems late last week, posing…
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Human brains have to work overtime to beat robots at Ping-Pong
Dealing with humanoid robots in their current iterations often seems a bit uncanny—the technology feels vaguely…
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This Belgian factory’s massive mirror array turns sunlight into thermal energy
A massive industrial plant in Belgium using 2,240 parabolic mirrors to harvest sunlight to create green…
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This record-breaking X-ray laser is ready to unlock quantum secrets
One of the world’s most powerful lasers can soon begin peering deeper into the atomic world…
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Watch a rocket engine ignite in ultra-slow motion
Rocket ignitions are always impressive, but they’re not the easiest to look at with the naked…
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Super-Ions Set to Revolutionize the Solar Cell Industry
In 2009, hybrid perovskites based solar cells typically operated at 4% efficiency. Despite the steady improvements…
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