The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District gave the go-ahead for the second phase of the Rough River Dam Safety Modification project in southwest Kentucky that aims to restore the dam’s long-term structural integrity and safeguard…
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Explaining the sonic weapon claims tied to the US raid in Venezuela
Following the U.S. operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, social media has been flooded with claims that American special forces used a mysterious “sonic weapon” to incapacitate defending security…
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Scientists use CERN proton beam to assess nuclear asteroid deflection
NASA’s DART mission, the first-ever planetary defense test in space, sent a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid in 2022.
That mission was a success. It showed that, in a hypothetical scenario where a massive asteroid was hurtling towards…
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Novel thick electrode enhances battery power and capacity for a 75% increase in output
A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a new type of thick electrode aimed at solving a common challenge in battery design: As the capacity increases, power often decreases. This breakthrough could enable electric vehicles (EVs) to…
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Skild AI raises $1.4B to build ‘omni-bodied’ robot brain
If there is a machine that moves, the Skild Brain will eventually be able to operate it, says Skild AI. Source: Skild AI
To get to a general-purpose robot, developers need a unified robotics foundation model, according to Skild AI. The company…
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AI platform links chemical synthesis and optics to tune nanocrystals
An open platform combines automated chemical synthesis, optical screening and AI modeling to control nanocrystal growth and tailor optical properties.
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In a warming world, freshwater production is moving deep beneath the sea
Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination’s biggest problems by moving the technology deep below the ocean’s surface.
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New US laser technology could unlock 100,000-qubit quantum computers
Researchers in the US have developed a new technique that could allow quantum computers to scale to well above 100,000 qubits by merging two highly powerful technologies, including optical tweezers and metasurfaces, into a single…
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RoboSense Achieves 303,000 Robotics LiDAR Sales in 2025, Up 1,142% Year-over-Year; Ranks No. 1
In 2025, the global robotics industry grew at a blistering pace. Leveraging its full-stack in-house chip design, RoboSense built a high-performance digital LiDAR portfolio and gained strong traction across smart robotic lawn mowers,…
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Zoomlion Advances Intelligent Manufacturing with Integrated AI and Embodied-Intelligence Robotics
Zoomlion is also scaling humanoid robotics as its “third growth curve,” backed by proprietary hardware-software integration capabilities.
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zoomlion”; 1157.HK) is driving a new…
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