A Spanish startup founded in April 2025 validates in record time an AI-powered perimeter surveillance system with sensor fusion, covering 40 hectares and 2,500 meters in real air traffic and reaching TRL 6 with a “double dome” that detects up to 3 km
Cheap drones, asymmetric threats, and fragile infrastructure have turned perimeter security into a daily concern for governments and companies. A young Spanish firm called…..
They wanted to equip astronauts with the “armor” of a tardigrade, but DNA gave them a resounding NO: the Dsup protein protects, yes, but in return it can kill cells
Future missions to the Moon and Mars will keep astronauts in deep space for months or even years. Out there, far from Earth’s protective…..
A camera trap records a “group” of fish leaving the water at night to walk on land for almost 20 minutes
Science
They wanted to equip astronauts with the “armor” of a tardigrade, but DNA gave them a resounding NO: the Dsup protein protects, yes, but in return it can kill cells
Future missions to the Moon and Mars will keep astronauts in deep space for months…..
A study sounds the alarm for the entire planet: screen time before the age of 2 could accelerate brain maturation and increase the risk of anxiety in adolescence
Handing a phone to a fussy baby can feel like a lifesaver while you cook…..
Most people think that taking a shower at night says a lot about who you are, but research points to something far less glamorous and far more important: a predictable routine that can improve sleep and calm the mental turmoil of the day
Does showering at night really reveal who you are? Not quite. The research around this…..
Scientists “hack” the pain signal before it reaches the brain: they create a biological “sponge” called SN101 to eliminate chronic pain at its source
Imagine treating chronic pain by stopping it before the brain ever notices it. That is…..
Frederick Hopkins, Nobel Prize in Medicine: “No animal can live on a mixture of pure proteins, fats, and carbohydrates alone”
Could a living body thrive on a “perfect” diet made only of purified protein, fat,…..
A camera trap records a “group” of fish leaving the water at night to walk on land for almost 20 minutes
What would you think if a group of fish suddenly climbed out of a pond…..
NASA “cultivates” viruses in space and, upon bringing them back to Earth, discovers that they have become more effective
Imagine sending a box full of viruses and bacteria into orbit and letting them battle…..
For 70 years, they were believed to be mammoths… but no, they were whales. Two “megafauna” vertebrae in Alaska have been relabeled, and history is changing in 2026
For more than 70 years, two heavy fossil vertebrae in a museum drawer in interior…..
A neurologist treated his mother’s dystonia with ultrasound… and suddenly her Alzheimer’s “activated” after remaining dormant for eight years
In a hospital in Shanghai, neurologist Sun Bomin was trying to ease his elderly mother’s…..
The deep ocean once again looks like something out of a movie, with sperm whales and giant squids locked in an evolutionary “war” that has lasted millions of years, and the scars give it away
Far below the reach of sunlight, where pressure crushes human submarines and the water feels…..
Mobility
Airbus has finally revealed the identity of the “mystery customer” who ordered eight A350-1000s, and the name comes as a surprise, as it changes the commercial landscape of long-haul flights and opens the door to a new battle for the most profitable routes
An order that once sat in the books of Airbus under the name of an unnamed customer…..
China builds a high-speed railway line in just 9 hours with 1,500 workers, reducing a 7-hour journey to just 90 minutes
In one carefully choreographed night in southeastern China, more than 1,500 railway workers turned a seven-hour ride…..
Energy
Economy
More than 1,000 metric tons of gold have been found underground in China, and the astonishing figure is its price: around $85.9 billion, in a discovery that could redefine the global map of this precious metal
Chinese geologists say they have uncovered more than 1,000 metric tons of gold beneath the…..
Millions of people could lose SNAP without realizing it, and the real change isn’t in soda or candy, but in a new rule that severely affects adults between the ages of 55 and 64
Most readers hear about soda and candy first when SNAP comes up. But for many…..
Elon Musk admits in February 2026 that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem
During a recent interview, Elon Musk described SpaceX’s Starbase launch site complex in South Texas…..
From the gold that sparked the rush of the 1850s to antimony, which now accounts for 5% of the world’s supply: Victoria’s surprising new mining revolution
Gold put Victoria on the mining map. But the minerals driving today’s clean tech boom…..
Goodbye to the “normal” SSI payment in March: that’s why millions of beneficiaries believe their money has suddenly disappeared
Did your SSI payment seem to vanish this March? For nearly 7.5 million people who…..
Musk admits on X that production of the Cybercab robotaxi and Optimus humanoid is not taking off, and that could prove very costly
Musk did not simply promise new gadgets. He painted a vision of ultra-cheap robotaxis that…..
The disturbing quote from John D. Rockefeller that explains why you are never satisfied with what you have
More than a century ago, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller was asked how much money…..
A hidden deposit 2,000 meters underground could contain one of the largest gold reserves on the planet
Deep under the hills of central China, geologists say they have located more than one…..
What looked like an old farmhouse about to collapse concealed 2,200 retro computers stacked on the second floor… The lot weighed 22 tons and sold on eBay in a matter of days
For more than two decades, over 2,200 unused NABU personal computers sat stacked in an…..
Japan has just lowered its drill to 19,685 feet below the ocean with the Chikyu, and the message to China is clear: we are going after rare earths even if they are 1,180 miles from Tokyo
Far out in the Pacific, near the tiny coral atoll of Minamitorishima Island about 1,900…..
Technology
Environment
A spider with a “pearl necklace” has been discovered, and the most disturbing thing is that each pearl is a living parasite attached to its body
At first glance, it looked almost cute. A tiny spider in a museum jar seemed…..
The exact place where Buddha was born more than 2,500 years ago and which today faces a race against time
At sunrise in Lumbini in southern Nepal, monks circle the white Maya Devi Temple, chanting…..
Between 2000 and 2022, humanity dumped 335,500 tons of an “eternal chemical” while trying to save the ozone layer, and now it appears in water, the Arctic, and even in our blood
For decades, the global phaseout of chlorofluorocarbons has been held up as one of humanity’s…..
Goodbye to water security as we knew it: 6 billion people live in countries that have lost freshwater on a sustained basis in just 22 years
For years, climate talks have focused on melting ice and rising seas. A new satellite…..
What seemed like bad news could take an unexpected turn: fresh water from West Antarctica could help the AMOC better withstand the impact of Greenland’s melting ice and, in some scenarios, even prevent its collapse
At first glance, the collapse of Antarctic ice sounds like the worst climate news you…..
A great white shark has been caught in waters near the Spanish coast: this is the third verified sighting in less than 11 years and reopens the debate about their presence in the Mediterranean
In spring 2023, fishermen working off the coast of Alicante pulled up a catch they…..
Goodbye to Europe’s temperate climate if this happens: the model predicts drops of up to 10-15 °C in areas of northwestern Europe after the collapse
A powerful Atlantic current that helps keep European winters milder than their latitude suggests may…..
A dinosaur the size of a cat and weighing less than 2.2 pounds changes history; the 90-million-year-old Alnashetri fossil rewrites its lineage
How can a dinosaur that weighed less than a small bottle of water shake up…..
