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Clean tech, engineering breakthroughs and space exploration

The Technology section covers clean tech, engineering breakthroughs, space exploration, desalination, advanced materials and green innovation. Inventions and cutting-edge projects that could help solve environmental challenges and change everyday life.

Researchers use MIT's machine-learning method to analyze atomic motifs in metal alloys, improving materials discovery for advanced engineering applications.

MIT’s new method promises to speed up the search for alloys for rockets, chips, and clean energy by analyzing invisible “neighborhoods” between atoms

By ECONEWS
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July 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
MIT DAAAM robot memory system identifying bicycles and describing objects inside a mapped environment.

Scientists at MIT have created a robot with an “elephant’s memory” that promises to tell you where you left your keys last night—and it does so in a matter of seconds

By ECONEWS
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July 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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NASA is developing and testing an artificial intelligence system that identifies 93% of the signs of a flash flood and could provide crucial time to respond

By ECONEWS
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July 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Elon Musk stands in front of SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, as the company pushes deeper into AI and market expansion.

SpaceX’s valuation keeps rocketing, raising eyebrows about how high a private company can fly before gravity bites

By Adrian Villellas
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June 30, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Gloved hands holding a semiconductor wafer linked to research on safer plasma processing for future ultrathin chips.

A chip material only three atoms thick was hit with plasma, and a tiny chemical trick changed what happened next

By ECONEWS
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June 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Autonomous agricultural robot used for laser weed control moving through a crop field.

Germany is literally zapping crops with lasers to ditch pesticides, and early tests say the crazy plan just might pay off

By ECONEWS
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June 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
High-speed drone propeller and brushless motor components used in a custom FPV quadcopter.

A key propeller tweak helped a drone design approach about 435 mph (700 km/h), pushing consumer-looking hardware into near-jet territory

By ECONEWS
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June 19, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Row of houses built with recycled plastic bricks as part of a fast modular construction system.

A 2026 building method promises a full house in five days, skipping bricks and conventional dry construction with a system designed for speed

By ECONEWS
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June 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Workers prepare a circular drill-and-blast pattern at the base of a deep shaft for tunnel excavation.

A U.S. city will bore through rock beneath a creek to build a massive sewage tunnel, with the route running up to about 118 feet (36 meters) underground in a historic infrastructure push

By ECONEWS
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June 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Workers install a steel test tunnel in an excavated trench at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for underground acoustic detection research.

Underground acoustic signals can expose hidden tunnels beneath U.S. roads and railways, turning vibrations into a new kind of subsurface X-ray

By Adrian Villellas
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June 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Underwater data center module off Shanghai connected to offshore wind turbines and subsea cables powering AI infrastructure

China opens a wind-powered underwater data center off Shanghai, cooled by seawater

By ECONEWS
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June 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, discusses the future of artificial intelligence and its long-term impact.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft: “We overestimate what AI will do in two years and underestimate what it will do in ten”

By Adrian Villellas
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June 11, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Jack-up barge with tall legs installing offshore desalination structures near Alkimos, Western Australia.

Australia positions a barge with 256-foot legs to install ocean intakes connected to tunnels under the seabed, feeding a desalination plant that will deliver about 39.6 million gallons a day

By ECONEWS
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June 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Workers installing a mesh barrier in a desert-edge field to control sand and protect crops using fiber-based materials.

It sounds like space tech but it is already farm defense: China uses lunar-tested basalt fibers to protect crops, and the material promises toughness where climate and pests hit hardest

By ECONEWS
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June 9, 2026 at 10:16 AM
A modular bloc terracotta wall structure designed to cool urban transit stops using water evaporation and solar-powered airflow.

Two young inventors design a brick that can cool cities using electricity, and the idea points to buildings that stop being part of the heat problem

By ECONEWS
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June 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Aerial view of Serbia National Football Stadium in Belgrade, showing circular design with green terraces and surrounding parking areas.

A Chinese company completes the first lift of a stadium’s steel structure aiming to become the world’s first “garden,” and its about 139,000 tons show the true weight of an icon

By ECONEWS
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June 4, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Large 3D printer building clay dome structures for the TECLA house using local soil in Italy.

Italian architects 3D-print a house from local clay— without using traditional bricks — by sourcing soil from the site itself. The question is no longer if it works but how much it can cut costs?

By Adrian Villellas
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June 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Cranes lifting prefabricated apartment modules into place during construction of a modular building in China.

A crew of around 100 workers and two cranes turned what looked like oversized shipping containers into a 26-story tower in five days. The real takeaway is that the slowest parts of construction – wiring, ductwork, and finishes – were done before anything arrived on site

By ECONEWS
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June 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
The expansive oval-shaped roof and architectural interior of the massive Xiong’an Railway Station in China.

China built Asia’s largest rail station in just two years, with about 5.1 million square feet, solar power, and welding robots, and the scale shows who’s setting the infrastructure pace

By ECONEWS
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May 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Archaeologists working at the Molkenmarkt excavation site in Berlin to recover medieval artifacts before urban redevelopment.

Berlin opens a 269,000-square-foot pit in the city center and exposes its medieval roots, with archaeologists racing construction crews to save coins, walls, and clues before it is covered again

By ECONEWS
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May 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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