Rolls-Royce announces the successful test of the world’s first high-speed marine engine powered purely by methanol. The breakthrough from the meOHmare project in Friedrichshafen offers a clear path for ferry and yacht operators to drastically reduce emissions using green fuel.
JAIST researchers found that Ewingella americana, a bacterium from Japanese tree frog guts, eradicated colorectal tumors in mice with a single dose. The treatment outperformed standard therapies and provided lasting cancer immunity, revealing a potent new avenue for microbiome-based oncology.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have enabled a paralyzed man to perform paid work and control robotic aids using a wireless brain implant. The WRS01 system allows control with a latency under 100 milliseconds, marking a major leap toward practical brain-computer interfaces.
China’s ‘Linghang’ shield tunneling machine, with a 15-meter diameter, has set a world record by boring 10,000 meters continuously under the Yangtze River. The intelligent machine paves the way for a 350 km/h rail tunnel, a critical link for the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
RIKEN Center scientists in Japan developed a plant-based plastic from cellulose that is as strong as conventional plastic but fully degrades in seawater in hours without microplastics. Led by Professor Takuzo Aida, the material is tunable from rigid to stretchable (130% elasticity) using safe, FDA-approved ingredients.
Harbin, China will open the world’s largest ice and snow theme park on December 17. The Harbin Ice-Snow World covers 1.2 million square meters, uses 400,000 cubic meters of ice, and features smart lighting, AI, and a full schedule of winter sports and events.
Independent developer Grolaf claims to have created the first fully AI-generated game, Codex Mortis, using ChatGPT for art and Claude Code for programming. The “vibe-coded” project has ignited a firestorm on Steam, with players decrying it as “AI slop” amid a broader debate on automation in game dev.
Spanish and UK researchers have developed a “dual-channel” system to control protein levels with surgical precision in living animals for the first time. The breakthrough, from the Centre for Genomic Regulation and University of Cambridge, allows lifelong, tissue-specific adjustment, unlocking new studies on the systemic biology of ageing and disease.
A U.S. research team from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and UPenn has built the first high-performance monolithic 3D chip in a domestic foundry. The design stacks memory and compute, achieving order-of-magnitude speed gains and a realistic path to 100-1000x improvements in energy efficiency, crucial for next-generation AI hardware.
University of Hong Kong scientists led by Dr. Zhang Shiming have engineered a 3D hydrogel semiconductor that is 99% water. This “second skin” material could solve the critical immune rejection issue hampering long-term brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink’s, enabling safer integration with living tissue.
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