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China’s Tesla wannabes split over end-to-end AI framework
For years, China’s autonomous driving stack has followed a four-layer model: perception, prediction, planning, and control.
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Turning a 2,400-year-old in situ collapse into a testable reconstruction
A rare roof collapse sealed a working space in place, but rebuilding it required controlled modeling workflows, not generative AI.
3 days ago
DARPA veteran Paul Eremenko on AI engineers, aerospace bottlenecks, and building starships
Eremenko explains how his startup P-1 AI aims to build AI engineers and reflects on why hydrogen aviation stalled.
8 days ago
Inside Spain’s Magerit supercomputer and the science it enables
At the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Magerit is helping researchers tackle problems ranging from aircraft fatigue to combustion physics and ecosystem stress.
8 days ago
NASA resets Artemis, but China could still win the race to the Moon
NASA is trading ambition for realism as it tries to stabilize a program long plagued by delays and technical setbacks.
11 days ago
Gallium nitride microLEDs could unlock ultra-efficient neuromorphic AI
The BRIGHT project aims to pair gallium nitride microLED arrays with silicon electronics to create light-driven neural networks capable of running AI with far less power.
14 days ago
Iran’s missile power and Hormuz disruption raise global energy stakes
Iran may be outgunned, but the regime could inflict serious trouble across the region and beyond.
18 days ago
Inverse design meets 4D printing in mechanical metamaterials
Engineers can now define a target mechanical response and generate a printable lattice to match it, turning materials design into a programmable process.
20 days ago
The model that built modern cosmology now faces new tests
The Lambda Cold Dark Matter model unified gravity, cosmic expansion, dark matter, and dark energy into a single framework. Fresh data are now probing its limits.
20 days ago
Can CRISPR gene drives reinvent pest control?
New gene drive experiments aim to suppress malaria mosquitoes while navigating resistance and containment risks.
21 days ago
The true cost and future of AI
Artificial intelligence represents the most consequential technological shift since the internet, yet its true costs extend far beyond the headlines of trillion-dollar valuations and revolutionary capabilities.
22 days ago
IEEE’s Tom Coughlin on why storage will decide AI’s future
The digital storage veteran argues that looming memory constraints could reshape data center buildouts and redefine how AI systems scale over the next decade.
23 days ago
Ex-Blue Origin engineer’s startup will send 1,000 trackable memorials to orbit
With memorial slots starting at $249, Space Beyond plans to undercut every previous orbital ash mission.
23 days ago
What it takes to electrify a highway
Engineers are testing whether embedded coils and rails can deliver hundreds of kilowatts to vehicles in motion.
23 days ago
Materials scientist Leonard Siebert on 3D printing for medicine
Technical project lead at KU Leuven, Siebert explains how LAMP and melt spinning could improve medical manufacturing and make drugs dissolve more effectively.
25 days ago
AI Impact Summit: When ambition outruns authority
India gathered the world to shape a development-first AI agenda, but the week showed how hard it is to turn declarations into authority.
25 days ago
OnePlanet CEO André Pujadas on building solar recycling infrastructure in the US
Trained engineer and former steel executive, Pujadas explains how his company is building industrial-scale facilities to recover valuable materials from end-of-life solar panels.
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Doosan Robotics on AI, modular automation, and rapid deployment in factories
The company’s Nvidia-powered AI depalletizing system aims to reduce programming barriers and speed modular cobot adoption.
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China targets the real bottleneck in AR displays
Shenzhen-based Appotronics is betting that improving optical efficiency will determine whether AR glasses can become practical, scalable consumer devices.
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Can engineered microbes produce isoprene for synthetic rubber?
A closer look at how metabolic engineering and industrial fermentation could provide a biological route to a key rubber precursor.
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