Amid abysmal car sales that continue to plummet worldwide and major regulatory hurdles plaguing the company’s driver assistance software, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is desperately looking to reinvent the company.
His newfound obsession has been…
Category: Engineering
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How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES
The weather in Las Vegas wasn’t looking good. The plan had been that each employee of YC-backed Bucket Robotics would carry parts of their booth in their luggage to the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show. But CEO and founder Matt…
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Distorted honeycomb magnet edges closer to a quantum spin liquid
Most magnets are predictable. Cool them down, and their tiny magnetic moments snap into place like disciplined soldiers. However, physicists have long suspected that, under the right conditions, magnetism might refuse to settle even in extreme…
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Scientists 3D print structures inside living human cells with precision
Human cells are extremely small and tightly packed – at about 20 micrometers across, roughly one-fifth the width of a human hair, each cell contains a dense mix of proteins, organelles, and molecular machinery. Being able to place tiny…
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Could ‘alien-looking’ giant airship over Chinese city transform wind farms?
The successful launch and testing of a giant airship-come-wind-turbine earlier this month has prompted discussion on whether they could be the future of sustainable power in China.
Called the S2000 Stratosphere Airborne Wind Energy System…
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The hidden technology behind fluid robot motion
A UR5 cobot uses strain wave gearing for smooth motions in material handling. Source: Universal Robots
Long gone are the days of rigid robotics, where arms jerk and clank in the most unintuitive ways. These movements have hindered production and…
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Pompeii’s first public baths were filled with filthy water, study reveals
A new study has investigated the bathwater in the legendary and technologically advanced city of Pompeii, revealing that the oldest public baths were extremely dirty.
With the introduction of a Roman aqueduct in the 1st century AD, the city…
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Giant iron bar found in the Ring Nebula may be a destroyed planet
Have you ever seen a cloud made of iron? You may not believe it, but deep inside a nebula that astronomers have studied for centuries, researchers have uncovered a massive bar-shaped cloud made almost entirely of iron atoms.
This glowing…
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UK-built tiny sailing robots collect first-ever data from live Category 5 hurricane at sea
UK-based oceangoing drone manufacturer Oshen has made history by collecting live data from inside a Category 5 Hurricane at sea for the first time. This feat has now managed to catapult the company’s profile and attract new potential…
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UK-made super materials to shield fusion reactors from extreme heat
The UK’s ambitious goal to switch on a prototype fusion power plant by 2040 has just cleared a major technical checkpoint.
A new research powerhouse, dubbed DIADEM, has been launched to solve a problem that has long plagued the energy…
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