When it comes to priorities in life, oxygen tops the list. Humans can go weeks without food and days without water. Take away ...

Solar cells made from perovskites rather than silicon are always a tale of trade-offs. They can be made cheaply, they can ...

Compare 10 smartphones with batteries from 5,088mAh to 10,000mAh, plus gaming-test results that show why capacity alone cannot predict endurance.

Lenovo is pushing hard into the “agentic AI” era with a massive refresh of its Think-series computer lineup, announced today at IFA 2026 in Berlin. The new lineup includes ultra-compact AI desktops, ...

When a cell gets ready to divide, it shuts down its gene-reading machinery almost entirely. For decades, the mechanism behind that shutdown was only partially understood. A new study co-led by Alarcón ...

Quantum mechanics is all about explaining the weirdest, most unlikely aspects of our reality, including oddities we might not even know exist yet. Now, physicists at Monash University in Australia ...

South Korean battery producer LG Energy Solution (LGES) has started production at its lithium-ion battery-cell plant in Lansing, Michigan. The Lansing plant has a cell making capacity of 35 GWh/yr, ...

Meghana Keshavan covers biotech and contributes to The Readout newsletter. Imagine Google Earth, but for a human cell. Zoom in closely enough, and instead of streets and buildings, there are proteins ...

The White House TikTok account affiliated with Donald Trump has posted another video, soundbedded with TayTay's music. And that music has been quietly scrubbed. By Lars Brandle The White House isn’t ...

SpaceX reiterated during its Q2 2026 earnings call that it plans to build its own terrestrial network. Rather than going the capital-intensive traditional route, the company wants to leverage existing ...

For decades, obesity medications produced only modest weight loss. But in recent years, Ozempic and related GLP-1 therapies have transformed the field, enabling sustained weight loss of 10 to 15% or ...

A new nanostructured carbon design lets fuel-cell catalysts use tiny amounts of platinum while remaining remarkably stable and efficient. The breakthrough could help hydrogen fuel cells become a more ...