In a major step for chemistry and drug development, researchers have designed a new way to edit molecules without rebuilding
China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University has released the world’s first open-source flight control software for bamboo-frame drones. The system cuts control delay from 20 milliseconds down to 8–10 milliseconds by tuning algorithms to handle bamboo’s natural vibrations. Free and modular, it lowers costs for eco-friendly UAVs in forest monitoring and education. The team says future work will improve weather resistance.
UK’s Loughborough University physicists have built a brain-inspired chip that makes some AI tasks up to 2,000 times more energy efficient than software. The memristor device uses random nanopores to process time-dependent data directly in hardware, skipping energy-heavy computing steps. Tests on chaos prediction and image recognition succeeded. The team says the approach could help solve AI’s rising energy demands. Further work is needed for real-world noise.
Harvard’s Stephanie Gil and a multi-university team have created “cy-trust,” a framework that helps robot fleets and self-driving cars decide which data to trust. Each agent assigns a 0-to-1 trust score to incoming information using onboard sensors and signal processing. Low-trust data gets ignored, preventing hacked or greedy agents from causing crashes. Tested in lab experiments against fake-identity attacks. Traditional security isn’t enough for physical systems.
Australia’s CSIRO has built the world’s first quantum battery that completes a full energy cycle. Led by Dr. James Quach, the device charges faster when more cells are added — opposite to normal batteries. It uses a laser and quantum effects to charge in femtoseconds. Current storage is just 1/200,000th of a mosquito’s energy, lasting nanoseconds. Works at room temperature.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new system that addresses inefficiencies in data centers in a
A simple finger tap may soon replace taps, clicks, and even typing on devices. Researchers from Cornell University and KAIST
MIT engineers have created a soft, flexible gel that becomes 400 times more conductive when exposed to light. By incorporating a photo-ion generator into rubber, the material can switch from an insulator to a conductor. This breakthrough could bridge the gap between soft biological tissues and hard electronics for use in wearables and robotics.
A homemade solar-powered drone built by Luke and Mike Bell stayed airborne for over five hours, setting an unofficial endurance
A new color-changing paint developed by researchers at Tufts University is offering a simple yet powerful way to measure physical
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