Scientists just turned ordinary metal into a black panel that makes seawater drinkable using nothing but sunlight, no brine, no pumps, no membranes, and the dry salt left behind gave up half its lithium
A lab at the University of Rochester now claims to have eliminated it. In a study published May 27 in Light: Science & Applications, a team led by Chunlei
I threw out my scanner after finding this hidden Google feature
How did I not know about this sooner?
The Mother of All Deep Space Radio Telescopes Is Going Up in the Nevada Desert
Caltech says its Deep Synoptic Array will be larger and 100-times faster than any radio telescope ever constructed.
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As #AI fills the web with deepfakes and bot swarms, how do we prove we're real? This episode of The Neuron dives into World ID and the future of online trust layers. 🎧👇
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The Internet Needs Proof You’re Human
How do you prove there’s a real human on the other side of the screen when AI can generate faces, IDs, accounts, agents, and entire swarms of bots?Tiago Sada, Chief Product Officer at Tools for…
Scientists discover a hidden cause of aging cells that can be reversed
Researchers discovered that declining levels of phosphatidylcholine may be a major cause of age-related mitochondrial dysfunction and loss of cellular energy. Remarkably, boosting this nutrient restored more youthful mitochondrial performance in aging organisms, suggesting some aspects of aging can be slowed or reversed.
America Just Added a Massive New Rare Earth Supply Source
With the Pentagon's rare earth deadline approaching, REalloys expands its domestic feedstock pipeline through a new Appalachian agreement.
It’s finally happened — renewable energy just overtook coal as the world’s main source of electricity as solar growth hits 'the largest ever observed for any source'
Renewable energy overtakes coal as main source of world's electricity generation, as thinktank sees a 'shift in the underlying dynamics of the power system'.
Japan just switched on Asia's first osmotic power plant, pulling clean electricity from the gap between fresh water and seawater nearly around the clock — a technology Norway gave up on in 2014
The facility sits inside the Uminonakamichi Nata Seawater Desalination Center in Fukuoka, and it switched on with an opening ceremony on August 5, 2025. It is
US firm's reusable launch system goes beyond Mach 4 speed twice
General Hypersonics' achievement sets another ram-accelerated mass-to-velocity milestone and advances the company's goal of making high-cadence hypersonic and suborbital launch operations affordable and repeatable.
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