What if cancer, HIV could be diagnosed at home and that too for less than the cost of a bus ticket?
MIT researchers have developed a disposable DNA-based sensor that not only detects disease with precision, but can also survive weeks without…
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Miniature chip mimics marrow to reshape blood cancer treatment
A credit-card-sized chip may soon outsmart cancer.
A team led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Weiqiang Chen has developed a miniature device that could reshape how blood cancer treatments are tested and personalized.
Roughly the size…
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Automated Layout Startup Civ Robotics Secures $7.5M Series A Funding Round
With an eye on growing its product line beyond its existing outdoor surveying and layout robot, San Francisco-based startup Civ Robotics announced July 1 that it has secured $7.5 million in Series A funding, in a round led by AlleyCorp with…
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Marine Terminal Planned for Site of Former New York City Floating Jail
A barge moored off the South Bronx coastline once seen as an answer to New York City’s overcrowded jails will be replaced by a strategic marine terminal in Hunts Point.
Opened in 1992 as a floating jail and decommissioned in 2023 as part of…
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Tutor Perini to Build $1.871-Billion Staging and Storage Facility for Midtown NYC Bus Terminal Redevelopment
Tutor Perini will construct the $1.871-billion Staging and Storage Facility as part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Midtown Bus Terminal Redevelopment Program in New York City.
Scheduled to get underway this fall, the…
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Tutor Perini to Build $1.9B Staging, Storage Facility for Midtown NYC Bus Terminal Redevelopment
Tutor Perini will construct the $1.87-billion Staging and Storage Facility as part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s $10-billion Midtown Bus Terminal Redevelopment Program in New York City.
Scheduled to get underway this fall,…
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Breakthrough method purifies rare earths element with just water
A rare earth breakthrough could rewrite the rules of recycling.
Scientists at IOCB Prague have developed a cleaner, smarter way to recover these critical elements, crucial to technologies from smartphones to wind turbines.
The technique…
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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passed, cuts solar, funds Mars missions
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-and-spending bill on Tuesday, locking in several of his long-promised domestic priorities.
The $3.3 trillion measure now heads back to the House of…
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How GM’s LMR Batteries Could Cut EV Costs
Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries were a made-in-America innovation, but China ended up cornering the market on what became the world’s leading solution in low-cost EV batteries. Now, following a decade of development, General Motors has…
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Quantum leap promises 1,000x faster, silicon-free electronics
Researchers have found a way to make electronics 1,000 times faster.
This was made possible by changing the “electronic state of matter on demand” through a technique known as thermal quenching.
The technique allows a quantum…
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