A new anti-ship cruise missile, currently under development in Japan, can perform barrel rolls to evade air defense systems. Dubbed “island defense missile” or “New SSM”, the missile is being developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI)…
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South Korea’s bunker-smashing ‘Monster Missile’ enters service
South Korea has begun operationally deploying its largest ballistic missile to date, the Hyunmoo-5, a high-power surface-to-surface weapon designed to destroy deeply buried and hardened targets in North Korea.
Dubbed a “monster missile”…
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Swiss cow grabs brush and forces scientists to rethink cattle smarts
A new study has challenged assumptions about livestock intelligence by documenting the first known instance of a cow using tools.
Veronika, a pet Swiss Brown cow, whose clever use of tools suggests cattle are far more intelligent than we’ve…
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Positronium finally shows wave behavior in landmark quantum experiment
Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the smallest scales.
One of its most surprising discoveries was wave-particle duality, the idea that particles can act like waves under certain…
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XPeng hits mass-production milestone with first ET1 humanoid robot
XPeng has completed the first unit of its ET1 humanoid robot prototype, marking progress toward large-scale mass production.
Founder and CEO He Xiaopeng announced the milestone on social media, saying the robot was developed to…
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Asus exits smartphones indefinitely, no more ROG or Zenfones
Asus has confirmed it is stepping away from the smartphone business, ending a long but increasingly fragile chapter in its consumer electronics portfolio. The company will not launch new phones in 2026 and has no fixed plans to…
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Lightweight SwiM-UNet with multi-dimensional adaptor for efficient on-device medical image segmentation
Alexey, D. An image is worth 16×16 words: Transformers for image recognition at scale. Preprint at arXiv: 2010.11929 (2020).
Liu, Z. et al. Swin transformer: Hierarchical vision transformer using shifted windows. In Proc. of the IEEE/CVF…
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AI-enabled energy baselines for verified building decarbonization
UNEP. Emissions gap report 2022. United Nations Environment Programme. (2022) https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2022
UNEP. (2025). Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2024/2025. UNEP – UN Environment Programme….
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Fault-induced detection method for power supply lines in the cutting unit of coal shearer based on PIO–VMD–EDO
This paper focuses on the fault localization research for power supply lines in the cutting unit of coal shearer. The coal cutting process of the coal shearer is illustrated in Fig. 1. In this process, the screw drum engages directly with the…
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Mechanical properties and microscopic damage of sandstone under prolonged tailings water immersion
Cheng, D., Cui, Y., Li, Z. & Iqbal, J. Watch out for the tailings Pond, a Sharp edge hanging over our heads: lessons learned and perceptions from the Brumadinho tailings dam failure disaster. Remote Sens. 13, 1775 (2021).
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