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Anello Photonics Introduces New Technology for Navigation

Catwell — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:10:19 GMT

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

Catwell — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:46:34 GMT

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!

Catwell — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:27:43 GMT

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

Catwell — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:28:13 GMT

(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

Catwell — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:41:11 GMT

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

Catwell — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:55:29 GMT

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

Catwell — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:45:02 GMT

(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

Catwell — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:37:45 GMT

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

Catwell — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:12:03 GMT

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

Catwell — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:50:52 GMT

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

Catwell — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:04:18 GMT

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

Catwell — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:00:50 GMT

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

Catwell — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:04:57 GMT

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

Catwell — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:41:39 GMT

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

Catwell — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:11:00 GMT

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)