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The full SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy stack standing beside the launch tower at Starbase under a pink and orange sunset sky

Starship flew for the 13th time with a clean splashdown, but the Mars test that matters most still has not happened

By Sonia Ramírez
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September 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Rocky seafloor illuminated by sunlight filtering through clear ocean water.

Old radioactive material from Oak Ridge could power the seafloor, but the underwater station still exists mostly in tests

By ECONEWS
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September 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Illustration of light interacting with an all-optical photonic time crystal.

Scientists built the first all-optical photonic time crystal, and it could change how light is controlled before computers can use it

By Kevin Montien
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September 10, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Arika Kundu holding produce while demonstrating her LIGNEX food-safety project.

A 13-year-old from Minnesota is testing peanut shells against pesticide residue, and the overlooked waste could become a food-safety tool

By ECONEWS
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September 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
U.S. Navy AFDM 15 floating dry dock being maneuvered on the Mobile River in Alabama.

Austal launched a 694-foot Navy dry dock in Mobile, and the strange part is that it lifts warships by sinking first

By Adrian Villellas
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September 7, 2026 at 8:45 AM
NASA's High Performance Spaceflight Computing processor held in a gloved hand.

NASA’s new space processor fits in a gloved hand, but its 500-times speed could change how spacecraft survive far from Earth

By Sonia Ramírez
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September 6, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Flocean staff and local officials sample the first drinking water produced by the Flocean One subsea desalination pod in Mongstad, Norway.

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

By Kevin Montien
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September 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Seven heavy-haul freight train units lined up during a virtual coupling test in China.

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

By Sonia Ramírez
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September 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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

By ECONEWS
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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

By ECONEWS
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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
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