2026 • Jan 30
Custom machine kept man alive without lungs for 48 hours
Infections had turned his lungs to soup and had to be cleared before transplant. ...
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2026 • Jan 27
Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places. But that number could drop this year, thanks to tests of stra...
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2025 • Dec 16
Quantum navigation could solve the military’s GPS jamming problem
In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in Lithuania was reportedly the subject of a kind of attack—not by a rocket or anti-aircraft rounds, but b...
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2025 • Aug 14
Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere
Photophoresis can generate a tiny bit of lift without any moving parts. ...
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2025 • Aug 09
New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater
It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract. ...
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