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NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft flying above the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in an artist's concept.

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

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM

Chessie tunnel-boring machine built for the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel beneath Chesapeake Bay.

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

By Kevin Montien

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August 30, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Keith Thomas uses his hand to hold a cup during brain implant therapy for paralysis.

Six years after paralysis, brain implants restored movement and touch; the bigger surprise was what remained when the implants stopped

By Adrian Villellas

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August 26, 2026 at 6:18 PM

Concept illustration of a permanent magnet panel designed to shield a spacecraft from solar radiation.

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

By Sonia Ramírez

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August 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM

ironplac-magnetic-wall-shovel-demonstration

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

By Adrian Villellas

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August 24, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Przewalski's horses standing on an abandoned road in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

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

By Adrian Villellas

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August 21, 2026 at 9:30 AM

Compact SAXON Q diamond-based quantum computing systems designed to operate at room temperature.

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

By Kevin Montien

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August 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Wood-based foam mixture being poured into molds during development at the University of Maine.

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

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August 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Roy Kim, a 2026 3M Young Scientist Challenge finalist who developed a water-from-air irrigation system for plants.

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

By Kevin Montien

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August 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM

Bridgestone AirFree airless tires powering an autonomous electric shuttle during commercial service in Higashiomi, Japan.

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

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August 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Tornyol Systems co-founder Alex Toussaint demonstrates the autonomous mosquito-hunting drone during a live technology presentation.

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.

By Kevin Montien

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August 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Concept image of the Earendil-1 satellite carrying a reflective film for orbital sunlight tests.

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

By Kevin Montien

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August 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM

High-voltage transmission lines and an electrical substation supplying power to a large AI data center in the United States.

Power lines for AI data centers could cross private land by force, and the legal tool behind it is raising a new climate fight

By Kevin Montien

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August 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM

Aerial view of a drilling rig operating at a remote energy exploration site surrounded by forest and red earth.

Australia may build a $40 billion AI data center powered by gas, and its electricity demand is the part raising alarms

By Adrian Villellas

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July 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM

Student inventor Zabeer Zarif Akhter testing his plasma water purification prototype in a laboratory.

At 17, a student in Bangladesh used old laptop batteries, broken circuit boards, and parts from an old tube TV to build a solar-powered water purifier

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July 27, 2026 at 6:33 PM

Concept illustration of NASA's future Moon Base supported by commercial lunar landers and scientific infrastructure.

NASA will pay $590 million to three companies to send construction materials to the Moon, a key step toward making a future lunar base feel less distant

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July 26, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Engineers install a sand-filled structural damper inside a building to reduce vibrations and earthquake forces.

Engineers developed sand dampers that could replace oil and protect buildings and bridges more cheaply and sustainably when vibrations or earthquakes hit

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July 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM

The Dragonbot research team from the Universitat Politècnica de València poses with the autonomous dragon fruit harvesting robot.

Young creators built DragonBot, a low-cost robot programmed to pick only one type of seasonal fruit, a very farm-smart idea that could save labor without relying on expensive machines

By Kevin Montien

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July 25, 2026 at 10:18 AM

An engineering rendering of a carbon-fiber structural battery component designed for aircraft landing gear integration.

Spain created aircraft landing gear capable of storing energy like a battery, a strange idea that could turn the force of every landing into usable electricity

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July 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM

A 3D-printing construction system at work on a building site in regional Australia.

An agricultural town in Australia has jobs, factories, and a desire to grow, but it lacks the most basic necessity: Housing for its employees, and now it wants to solve this problem with 3D-printed homes

By Sonia Ramírez

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July 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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Engineers lowered a giant steel structure into the water off the Florida Keys where it will deliberately remain on the seabed, but what looks like abandoned industrial hardware is designed to become something alive

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