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Tech is thriving in New York. So are the rentsNew York (AFP) Feb 16, 2026 It accounts for more than 200,000 jobs and has colonized entire neighborhoods. In New York, the tech industry is driving local economic growth like never before - but it is also widening the gulf between the haves and have-nots. ... more  
UK's crumbling canals threatened with collapseWhitchurch, United Kingdom (AFP) Feb 11, 2026 On a misty winter's day in the English midlands, engineers struggled to drag stranded narrowboats from a waterless, mud-filled canal that collapsed weeks earlier, in a delicate, multi-million-pound rescue operation. ... more  
Amazonian fish skin biofilm tested as greener food packaging optionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 Using the skin of an Amazonian fish known as tambatinga as the raw material, researchers in Brazil have developed a gelatin based biofilm that can serve as a more sustainable option for food packagi ... more  
China space firm tests two seat flying car concept in ChongqingTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 An electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft developed by the ninth academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has completed its first flight in southwest China. The maiden s ... more |
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Experiments settle debate over how Molybdenum 93 isomer releases stored energyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 A team at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and collaborators has identified the dominant mechanism that releases energy stored in the nuclear isomer Molybdenum 93m. ... more  
Golden bridge tunnel junction design boosts all perovskite tandem solar cell efficiencyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 A research team from the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and the School of Optical and Electronic Information at Huazhong University of Science and Technology has reported a new advanc ... more 
JUNO VR system brings detector events into immersive 3D spaceTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 Researchers working on the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) experiment have developed a Unity-based virtual reality system that immersively visualizes detector geometry and event inf ... more  
Lockheed Martin debuts Lamprey undersea mission vehicleLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 Lockheed Martin has introduced the Lamprey Multi Mission Autonomous Undersea Vehicle, a new submersible designed to give US and allied naval forces a flexible and persistent presence in contested wa ... more |
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Muon study clarifies superconducting behavior in strontium ruthenateTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 Quantum materials and superconductors are inherently complex, and unconventional superconductors pose an even greater challenge because they fall outside standard theoretical descriptions. One promi ... more  
Asian stocks up, oil market cautiousTokyo (AFP) Feb 18, 2026 Asian stocks mostly rose Wednesday, while the oil market was cautious after prices dropped in the wake of Tehran's upbeat response during talks with US officials on Iran's nuclear programme. ... more  
Brazil eyes fossil fuel roadmap 'that unites'Paris, France (AFP) Feb 17, 2026 The hosts of the last UN climate talks want to present a 'roadmap' on reducing dependence on oil, gas and coal that unites nations, they said Tuesday, after a battle over fossil fuels marred the summit in Brazil. ... more  
China has slashed air pollution, but the 'war' isn't overBeijing (AFP) Feb 17, 2026 Fifteen years ago, Beijing's Liangma riverbanks would have been smog-choked and deserted in winter, but these days they are dotted with families and exercising pensioners most mornings. ... more |
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'Make America Healthy' movement takes on Big Ag, in break with RepublicansWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 16, 2026 From Wyoming to Florida and the capital Washington, 'Make America Healthy Again' activists have notched wins across the United States against agricultural and chemical giants long protected by the conservative politicians they generally support. ... more 
Extreme heat flips strength rules for pure metalsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 For centuries, metalworkers have heated metals to soften them before hammering, bending or reshaping them, but new research shows that this basic rule breaks down when pure metals face extreme strai ... more 
Hydrogen bond design advances solar water oxidation efficiencyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 Hydrogen bonds, best known for holding water and biomolecules together, now show a powerful role in solar energy conversion as part of a new supramolecular photocatalyst for water oxidation. Researc ... more 
Illinois team outlines emit-then-add route to photonic graph statesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 Physicists at the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have devised a new way to build large photonic graph states using currently available hardware. The s ... more |
Next generation solar manufacturing pathway could avoid massive CO2 outputLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 Manufacturing the next generation of solar panels could cut global carbon emissions by as much as 8.2 billion tonnes by 2035, according to a new international study led by researchers at the Univers ... more  
Soil microbe turns carbon dioxide into acetate using electricitySydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 A newly identified soil bacterium could help connect renewable electricity with carbon recycling by turning carbon dioxide into useful chemicals. Researchers report that the sulfate reducing bacteri ... more 
Study maps path to cleaner terawatt scale solar manufacturingLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Pioneering research led by Northumbria University shows how the global solar industry can expand manufacturing of photovoltaic technology while further shrinking its environmental footprint. A ... more 
Simulations reveal how plasma flow steers fusion reactor exhaustLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Scientists using advanced computer models have solved a long-standing puzzle about how hot plasma exhaust behaves inside tokamak fusion devices, a finding that could help future reactors withstand d ... more |
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Brain learns faster from rare rewards than from repetitionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 More than a century after Pavlov trained dogs to link a bell with food, neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco report that the brain may rely more on the timing of rewards th ... more 
UCSB scientists bottle the sun with liquid batterySanta Barbara, CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2026 When the sun goes down, solar panels stop working. This is the fundamental hurdle of renewable energy: how to save the sun's power for a rainy day - or a cold night. Chemists at UC Santa Barba ... more  
Airbus taps Synspective SAR radar network for expanded Earth imagingParis, France (SPX) Feb 17, 2026 Airbus Defence and Space has signed a new radar satellite data framework agreement with Japanese Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) specialist Synspective Inc. to broaden its space-based radar coverage ... more  
INL and NVIDIA align AI platform to speed advanced nuclear rolloutLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2026 Idaho National Laboratory has entered a new collaboration with NVIDIA to apply artificial intelligence and accelerated computing to the full life cycle of advanced nuclear reactors, from early desig ... more |
GENUSA to supply GNF2 reload fuel for Vattenfall Forsmark plantBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 23, 2026 Global Nuclear Fuel and ENUSA have secured a new contract to supply reload fuel for Vattenfall's Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden through their joint venture GENUSA. The agreement, which begin ... more 
INL launches molten salt examination hub for next gen reactorsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2026 The National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory is preparing to bring a new molten salt research capability online in March, marking a key step in the development of advanced rea ... more 
US labs map liquid metal path to future fusion power plantsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2026 A national strategy for research on liquid metals in fusion energy systems is taking shape in the United States following a two day meeting at the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Lab ... more  
Satellite radar maps reveal rapid delta land lossParis, France (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Earths river deltas, home to about 5 percent of the global population and some of the worlds major cities, are sinking as land subsides faster than the sea is rising in many locations. New satellite ... more |
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Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firmLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Infleqtion, a provider of neutral atom based quantum computing and sensing systems, has completed its business combination with Churchill Capital Corp X and is now listed on the New York Stock Excha ... more 
Microbes harvest metals from meteorites aboard space stationIthaca, NY (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be impossible to leave them behind, since they live on and in our bodies, surfaces a ... more 
Regrowing marginal farmland can curb emissions without cutting food outputBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 Food production currently accounts for about one third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and agriculture places heavy pressure on biodiversity, water resources and water quality across Europe. Res ... more 
Copper price must climb sharply to support global demandLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2026 The price of copper must at least double to trigger enough new mine development to meet basic global copper needs over the coming decades, according to a team led by a University of Michigan researc ... more |
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