California could slash an extra eight million tons of carbon dioxide by giving electric‑vehicle (EV) batteries a second career as grid‑connected storage before sending them to the shredder, according to a trans‑Atlantic research…
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Breakthrough 3mm VR display delivers lifelike 3D with holography
The future of virtual reality is shrinking, literally.
Once confined to bulky headsets and limited fields of view, VR is now being designed for seamless integration into everyday wearables.
Researchers and companies across the world are…
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Raise Robotics Raises $7.75M in Seed Funding, Plans to Invest in its Platform
Raise Robotics, developer of the Raise Robotics construction platform, announced July 30 a $7.75-million seed funding round led by MaC Venture Capital with participation from Undivided Ventures and existing investors Cybernetix Ventures, Zacua…
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Raise Robotics Nets $7.75M in Seed Funding to Build Out Multipurpose Robot Platform
Raise Robotics, developer of the Raise Robotics construction platform, announced July 30 a $7.75-million seed funding round led by MaC Venture Capital with participation from Undivided Ventures and existing investors Cybernetix Ventures, Zacua…
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The first space artifacts we sent to say we were here
The Space Age began on October 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1. Months later, NASA answered with Explorer 1. Since then, over 6,900 payloads have launched into space — orbiting Earth, sending back climate data, enabling GPS,…
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Scientists simulate icy moon volcanoes that could reveal alien life
A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield, the Open University, and the Czech Academy of Sciences has recreated the extreme conditions of deep space volcanoes in the laboratory.
The researchers simulated volcanic activity on icy…
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World’s ‘most powerful’ non-nuclear bomb can melt steel
At the 17th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey introduced its most powerful non-nuclear bomb to date. The new weapon is called Gazap, which translates to “Wrath” in Turkish. It weighs 2,000 pounds…
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Compact neutrino experiment unlocks first-ever reactor mystery
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) have detected antineutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a 3 kg (6.6 lbs) detector.
The results were achieved using the CONUS+ experiment and provide an observation of…
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US scientists shrink giant lasers with 1,000x faster electron beams
Scientists have demonstrated a new method for generating and sustaining the high-quality electron beams required for X-ray lasers, a step toward making the instruments smaller and more affordable.
The research was conducted by a team from…
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US study finds lithium in reactor vessel could boost nuclear fusion
Scientists have discovered a unique type of lithium wall behavior that could help design a better fusion reactor in the future. Tokamaks’ walls made with lithium could offer several ways to enhance the process, according to a new…
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