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Anello Photonics Introduces New Technology for Navigation

2026-09-11T20:10:19Z

Small SiPhOG chip. (Image Credit: Anello Photonics) Today’s navigation systems must be accurate, especially when GPS signals aren’t available or reliable. Although jamming blocks those signals, spoofing can send false positioning data to...(read more)

An AI System Set Course to Our Nearest Star System

2026-09-11T12:46:34Z

Alpha Centauri. (Image Credit: European Southern Observatory/Digitized Sky Survey 2; Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin/Mahdi Zamani) By the end of 2029, the nonprofit Fermi Explorer Mission is aiming to launch an interstellar spacecraft to Alpha Cent...(read more)

Love Birds and Artwork? Try Out Fugleramme!

2026-09-10T05:27:43Z

The Fugleramme device captures bird songs and draws an illustration of the species on an e-ink display. (Image Credit: arnegiacomo/GitHub) I love love love this. It’s one of those project where you lean back and say, why didn’t I think o...(read more)

Sensor Array Discovers an Underground Reservoir at Old Faithful

2026-09-04T22:28:13Z

(Image Credit JillWellington/pixabay) The Old Faithful geyser has a secret. And University of Utah scientists uncovered it. Beneath the area around the geyser lies a network of fractures and pores that forms part of its hydrothermal system. This con...(read more)

Voyager 1 Signal Detected by Amateurs

2026-08-27T21:41:11Z

Artist’s rendering of Voyager traveling through space. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In late 2024, skilled radio amateurs with CAMRAS used the Dwingeloo Observatory to detect the carrier signal of Voyager 1 from over 15.5 billion miles away...(read more)

Engineers Develop Living Circuit Boards Using Bacteria That Work Like Transistors

2026-08-25T20:55:29Z

MIT has engineered bacteria to function like transistors for living circuit boards. (Image Credit: MIT) Transistors are used in circuitry to control electrical signal flow. But now there is a bio-inspired one. MIT engineers modified bacteria that ca...(read more)

Human Neurons to Power Data Centers in Australia and Scientists Create Virtual Fly

2026-08-21T12:45:02Z

(Image Credit: TheDigitalArtist/pixabay) Something about these developments makes me think we’re living in a dystopian science fiction timeline. Really unsettling. How much brain matter is needed for consciousness? Cortical Labs, an Austr...(read more)

Apollo 11’s Software Was Woven by Hand

2026-08-20T12:37:45Z

Launch of the Apollo 11 mission. (Image Credit: NASA) Before launching, the Apollo 11 software had to become physical. It wasn’t electronically written into its computer. After programmers wrote and verified the software, the binary instructi...(read more)

Two Laser Pulses Steer an Electron Beam

2026-08-13T20:12:03Z

Illustrating showing two colored laser pulses moving an electron beam in different directions. (Image Credit: Yiming Gong/University of Michigan) University of Michigan engineers recently developed a device that uses laser light to control electron ...(read more)

Wildlands Network is Tracking Pronghorn to See If Solar Projects Affect It

2026-08-04T17:50:52Z

A pronghorn. (Image: pixabay) Solar projects are spreading across landscapes, and researchers are investigating how wildlife adapts to them. Wildlands Network fitted 75 female pronghorns with GPS collars to understand how they move across areas with...(read more)

Vision Restoration Implant Gains European Approval

2026-07-28T20:04:18Z

The tiny PRIMA implant helps restore lost vision. (Image Credit: Science Corporation) Brain-computer interfaces have come a long way. And now they’re being deployed in real-world healthcare, with new devices helping patients regain lost abilit...(read more)

Venezuelan Residents Received an Alert When the Earthquakes Struck

2026-07-15T20:00:50Z

In 2020, Southern California experienced a 4.5-magnitude earthquake. Android phones were notified when the quake hit. (Image Credit: Google) Small earthquakes, which cause little to no damage, happen every day. Occasionally, stronger ones strike. Th...(read more)

Last Year, Paradromics and the University of Michigan Implanted A BCI In a Research Participant

2026-07-10T07:04:57Z

The Connexus BCI recorded neural activity as soon as they fire. (Image Credit: University of Michigan) Elon Musk’s Neuralink has competition in the brain-computer interface (BCI) space. In collaboration with Paradromics, University of Michig...(read more)

Commercial LiDAR Sensor Can Allow You to See Around Corners

2026-06-30T18:41:39Z

MIT researchers have turned a smartphone LiDAR sensor into a system that can see around corners. (Image Credit: Aaron Young/MIT Media Lab) One might think it’s impossible to see around corners without special equipment. But MIT researchers ha...(read more)

Researchers Develop a Light-Based Chip That Processes Information

2026-06-25T07:11:00Z

Artist’s impression of a photonic valleytronic chip that processes information. (Image Credit: Chi Linn) Monash University researchers recently developed a tiny circuit that generates light signals, precisely routes them, and turns them into e...(read more)