Over the past decade, NASA and industry have demonstrated to the FAA through a series of tests that drones can safely maneuver around each other by adhering to UTM. And last summer, the agency gave the go-ahead for multiple drone delivery…
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Miniature Black Hole? This New Device Swallows and Spits Out Light
A team of researchers has engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the physics of black holes and their mysterious counterparts, white holes. These “optical analogs” use a principle called coherent perfect absorption to either…
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Wearable Technology Inspired by Starfish
A study published in Science introduces a starfish-inspired wearable bioelectronic system that represents a breakthrough in real-time, high-fidelity heart disease diagnosis. The device, designed with a…
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Fake Blood Vessels Mean Lab-Grown Chicken Can Now Be Nugget Sized : ScienceAlert
Researchers are closer to growing chicken nuggets in the lab, thanks to the use of tiny hollow fibers that mimic blood vessels.
While cultured meat has been advancing for some time now, it’s been limited to thin strips of less than a…
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Harvard Builds Laser the Size of a Chip, Bright Enough to Map Invisible Worlds
Physicists at Harvard have developed a powerful new laser-on-a-chip that emits bright pulses in the mid-infrared spectrum – an elusive and highly useful light range for detecting gases and enabling new spectroscopic tools. The device, which…
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The State Department office countering foreign disinformation is being eliminated, officials say
In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from…
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Adapting for AI’s reasoning era
As AI systems that learn by mimicking the mechanisms of the human brain continue to advance, we’re witnessing an evolution in models from rote regurgitation to genuine reasoning. This capability marks a new chapter in the evolution of AI—and…
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The Download: How AI is changing music, and a US city’s AI experiment
While large language models that generate text have exploded in the last three years, a different type of AI, based on what are called diffusion models, is having an unprecedented impact on creative domains.
By transforming random noise into…
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Shocking Simplicity: Scientists Turn Falling Rain Into Renewable Energy
A team of researchers has discovered a clever way to turn falling water droplets – like those from rain – into usable electricity. By channeling droplets through a narrow vertical tube to create “plug flow,” they were able to separate…
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How Colossal Biosciences is attempting to own the “woolly mammoth”
Revive & Restore, a de-extinction organization in Sausalito, California, that is working toward reviving the passenger pigeon, says it doesn’t think the birds should be controlled by intellectual-property claims. “Revive & Restore will not…
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