Early carbon light bulbs may have produced graphene, since applying voltage to carbon filaments mirrors what is now called flash Joule heating.
When people imagine the future, negative outcomes tend to provoke far stronger emotions than positive ones. A new study finds that anticipating a potential loss carries more than six times the emotional impact of imagining an equivalent gain, an…
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the main promenade. AI dominated the conversation in a way that overshadowed traditional…
Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, into your home to keep you safe. But we…
AMD appears to be working on a refreshed version of its Ryzen AI MAX 400 family, codenamed “Gorgon Halo”. According to recent leaks by VideoCardz, this next-gen refresh targets faster performance for Ryzen-powered machines, especially…
January 23, 2026
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AI’s next battleground is your body
Tech giants are betting that we are finally ready to invite a persistent digital device into our lives
A woman…
NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo. The agency’s new era of spaceflight comes with a few parts from its past, specifically three rocket…
Listen to this audio excerpt from Dustin Gohmert, Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) manager:
During NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon, the astronauts inside the Orion spacecraft…
Humans — not glaciers — transported Stonehenge’s megaliths across Great Britain to their current location in southern England, a new study confirms.
Scientists have believed for decades that the 5,000-year-old monument’s iconic stones came…
Perovskite solar cells degrade rapidly when superoxide radicals, generated from oxygen trapped within the device, attack the absorber layer. A thin interlayer of taurine, a sulfur-containing amino acid abundant in octopus and squid, intercepts…
