Facing a critical metals shortage, miners are partnering with biotech startups like Allonnia and Endolith. Using engineered microbes and broths, they aim to extract more copper, nickel, and rare earths from aging mines and waste, powering the EV and renewable energy transition with biology.
USC Viterbi professor Eva Kanso reveals how brainless sea stars master movement. Her lab’s research, in partnership with UC Irvine and the University of Mons, decodes a decentralized control system where each tube foot acts independently—a breakthrough for building robust, autonomous robots for extreme environments.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists Travis Yeager and Denvir Higgins used Quartz and Ruby supercomputers to simulate one million stable orbits in cislunar space. Their open-source dataset, created in just three days, is a foundational tool for future lunar missions and space traffic management.
Exclusive reporting reveals Russia’s Luch-1 and Luch-2 satellites have intercepted communications from 17+ EU satellites. This years-long espionage campaign targets unencrypted command links, giving Moscow data that could be used to manipulate or crash critical orbital infrastructure.
Ecologist Tim Henderson has made a historic first sighting of a Siberian peregrine falcon in Central Australia. This record-breaking observation of the 300 km/h bird in the arid zone reshapes understanding of its migration, potentially linked to heavy rainfall creating inland wetlands.
NASA’s Artemis III astronauts will wear a new-generation space suit developed by Axiom Space, designed to provide enhanced mobility and
NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed in Jezero Crater on Mars in 2021 to investigate evidence of ancient life, made its
As intense radiation flooded Earth’s upper atmosphere, a strong X4.2-class solar flare on Wednesday disrupted radio communications in parts of
Facing the rapid melt of Antarctica’s Thwaites ‘Doomsday Glacier’, a global team proposes a 150-meter tall seabed curtain. Led by Cambridge University and Professor John Moore, this radical geoengineering project aims to block warm water and slow sea-level rise, buying time for coastal communities worldwide.
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel ABF crystal that powers a desktop laser to a world-record 158.9 nanometre wavelength. Led by Professor Pan Shilie, this breakthrough in solid-state vacuum ultraviolet laser technology promises to revolutionize fields from quantum computing to space-based communications and semiconductor manufacturing.
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