Technology
A 13-year-old from Minnesota is testing peanut shells against pesticide residue, and the overlooked waste could become a food-safety tool
Austal launched a 694-foot Navy dry dock in Mobile, and the strange part is that it lifts warships by sinking first
NASA’s new space processor fits in a gloved hand, but its 500-times speed could change how spacecraft survive far from Earth
Norway lowered a 22-ton desalination pod 1,640 feet below the sea, where natural ocean pressure helps it produce up to one million liters of drinking water a day while using far less energy than conventional plants
China ran seven 5,000-ton coal trains across Inner Mongolia without physically coupling the train units, using a radio link to keep the 35,000-ton formation moving in sync, and officials say the system could boost rail capacity by more than 50% without laying new track
NASA’s Dragonfly is being built to fly on Titan, where thick air and weak gravity could make a truck-sized robot easier to lift
Engineers built a gigantic machine to work beneath Chesapeake waters where ordinary construction equipment cannot reach, and the scale of what it must move shows why some infrastructure projects require machines almost as impressive as the structures themselves
Six years after paralysis, brain implants restored movement and touch; the bigger surprise was what remained when the implants stopped
A 661-pound wall of 1,482 magnets can deflect solar protons without power or cooling, offering a surprisingly simple solution for protecting astronauts in deep space
A 29-year-old engineering student started mixing ordinary materials in an experiment and ended up creating something researchers believe could solve a problem engineers have been struggling with for years
Forty years after Chernobyl, wolves, lynx, Przewalski’s horses, and wild boar now use the exclusion zone at sevenfold density, showing how quickly large mammals benefit when human pressure vanishes across vast connected areas
A German startup sells a quantum computer that runs at room temperature in an ordinary server rack, but the qubit count on the label is not the one that matters
A graduate student in Maine turned wood into a foam that keeps a cooler almost as cold as plastic does, and the part that still fails is not the temperature
A 13-year-old in Oregon built a chamber that pulls drinking water out of the air for dry farms, and the amount it produced in two hours explains the real problem
Bridgestone has put its airless AirFree tire to work for the first time, powering slow 12-mph autonomous shuttles for elderly residents in Higashiomi, Japan
A Paris startup backed by Y Combinator says its bug-hunting drone completed its first autonomous kill, but the insect it caught was a moth, not a mosquito.
A California startup won approval to launch a 59-foot mirror into orbit that beams sunlight to a chosen spot on Earth, helping crews work after dark









