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Redesigned carbon framework boosts battery safety and powerTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a covalently bridged fullerene framework that allows carbon-based lithium-ion battery anodes to store lithium in a more stable configuration while sup ... more  
Shrinking AI memory improves LLM accuracyLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Researchers have developed a new way to compress the memory used by AI models to increase their accuracy in complex tasks or reduce the energy needed to run them. Experts from the University o ... more  
Stocks mostly rise, precious metals slip in quiet Asian tradeHong Kong (AFP) Dec 29, 2025 Asian equities mostly rose Monday in quiet post-Christmas trading as investors look ahead to the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's policy meeting this month, while precious metals retreated from record highs. ... more  
China's BYD poised to overtake Tesla in 2025 EV salesNew York (AFP) Dec 29, 2025 Growing Chinese auto giant BYD stands poised to officially surpass Tesla as the world's biggest electric vehicle company in annual sales. ... more |
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Europe wanted its carbon border tax to go global -- is it working?Paris, France (AFP) Dec 29, 2025 The EU's carbon border tax was designed to do more than clean up its own economy: it hoped to encourage trading partners to put a price on pollution as well. ... more  
'World's first' Green parliamentarian dies aged 75Geneva (AFP) Dec 28, 2025 Daniel Brelaz, celebrated in Switzerland as the first Green politician elected to a national parliament anywhere in the world, died overnight, his family said Sunday. He was 75. ... more  
Exodus fear in Greece's north as brown coal plants closePtolemaida, Greece (AFP) Dec 27, 2025 Mayor Panagiotis Plakentas fears what will happen to the town of Ptolemaida and the surrounding region when the last of the brown coal power plants in northern Greece close next year. ... more  
China's high-speed rail network passes 50,000km markBeijing (AFP) Dec 26, 2025 China's sprawling high-speed rail network passed 50,000 kilometres (31,000 miles) in total operating distance with the opening of a new line on Friday, state media reported. ... more |
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Inside Chernobyl, Ukraine scrambles to repair radiation shieldChernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine (AFP) Dec 26, 2025 Inside an abandoned control room at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a worker in an orange hardhat gazed at a grey wall of seemingly endless dials, screens and gauges that were supposed to prevent disaster. ... more |
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David Sacks: Trump's AI power brokerWashington, United States (AFP) Dec 24, 2025 From a total Washington novice, Silicon Valley investor David Sacks has against expectations emerged as one of the most successful members of the second Trump administration. ... more 
US denies visas to EU ex-commissioner, four others over tech rulesWashington, United States (AFP) Dec 24, 2025 The US State Department said Tuesday it would deny visas to a former EU commissioner and four others, accusing them of seeking to "coerce" American social media platforms into censoring viewpoints they oppose. ... more 
As US battles China on AI, some companies choose ChineseNew York (AFP) Dec 22, 2025 Even as the United States is embarked on a bitter rivalry with China over the deployment of artificial intelligence, Chinese technology is quietly making inroads into the US market. ... more 
AI resurrections of dead celebrities amuse and rankleWashington, United States (AFP) Dec 22, 2025 In a parallel reality, Queen Elizabeth II gushes over cheese puffs, a gun-toting Saddam Hussein struts into a wrestling ring, and Pope John Paul II attempts skateboarding. ... more |
China's rare earths El Dorado gives strategic edgeGanzhou, China (AFP) Dec 21, 2025 Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined around the clock by a secretive and heavily guarded industry. ... more  |
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Beetles block mining of Europe's biggest rare earths depositUlefoss, Norway (AFP) Dec 20, 2025 As Europe seeks to curb its dependence on China for rare earths, plans to mine the continent's biggest deposit have hit a roadblock over fears that mining operations could harm endangered beetles, mosses and mushrooms. ... more 
Molecular catalyst switches between hydrogen and oxygen productionBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Hydrogen production through water electrolysis is central to developing low-carbon energy systems, but current acidic electrolyzers depend on catalysts made from scarce metals such as iridium and pl ... more  
Project Pele microreactor reaches key milestone with first TRISO fuel deliveryLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Delivery of advanced nuclear fuel to Idaho National Laboratory's Transient Reactor Test Facility marks a major step for Project Pele, a mobile microreactor prototype intended to supply resilient pow ... more  
Heat limits on communication in computersLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Every task performed on a computer, from numerical calculations to video playback, depends on internal components exchanging information, and researchers are now quantifying the energy cost of that ... more |
 
NASA and Boeing advance control strategies for flexible long span airliner wingsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 The airliners of coming decades may feature long, slender wings that change the look of commercial aircraft while improving ride quality and cutting fuel use. Those high aspect ratio wings pro ... more 
One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structuresCambridge MA (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration into their curved, fully formed shape with only a single pull of a string. T ... more  
Biochar layer boosts hydrogen rich gas yields from corn strawTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025 Biochar can help convert agricultural residues such as corn straw into hydrogen rich gas while limiting carbon deposits on metal catalysts, according to a study in the journal Biochar. Researchers d ... more 
Hybrid excitons speed ultrafast energy transfer at 2D organic interfaceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Researchers from the Universities of Goettingen, Marburg, Humboldt University in Berlin, and Graz have identified a new quantum state at the interface between an organic semiconductor and a two dime ... more |
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AI image loops drift toward generic visual themesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Generative artificial intelligence systems that create and describe images tend to lose track of their starting point and converge on a narrow set of visual motifs when left to interact without huma ... more 
Modena team outlines staged roadmap to cut emissions from metal laser 3D printingModena, Italy (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Laser powder bed fusion allows manufacturers to build complex metal components with limited scrap, but the process still carries a significant environmental footprint from electricity use, shielding ... more  
NUS team boosts durability of vapor deposited perovskite silicon tandem solar cellsSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a vapour-deposition process that significantly enhances the long-term and high-temperature stability of perovskite-silicon (S ... more  
Drone lab system tracks nitrate runoff in farm waterwaysLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 What if instead of bringing water or soil samples back to a laboratory, researchers could transport the lab directly to the field? That is the approach a team reporting in ACS Sensors has taken with ... more |
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Thorium 229 nuclei driven by laser in opaque solid moves optical nuclear clock research forwardBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 A team from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has for the first time excited the atomic nuc ... more |
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Hydrogen from ethanol reforming mapped as aviation fuel-cell pathwaySydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 The global effort to cut aviation emissions has put hydrogen at the center of long-term propulsion plans for aircraft, with fuel cells emerging as a leading alternative to combustion engines because ... more 
US halts imports of Chinese-made tires from Serbia over alleged forced labourBelgrade (AFP) Dec 19, 2025 The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued late Thursday a withhold release order against automobile tires manufactured in Serbia by a Chinese-owned factory over alleged forced labor. ... more  
New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical MineralsPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 09, 2025 Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals on Earth's surface some ... more 
Field work on South Africa's "living rocks" reveals rapid carbon capture in extreme conditionsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 South Africa preserves some of the oldest traces of life on Earth in rocky, layered formations known as microbialites, which resemble coral reefs but are built by microbes that turn dissolved minera ... more |
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