Energy

A USC team built a memory chip that survived 700C for 50+ hours — hotter than Venus, built by accident, and the test equipment gave out before the device did.

A new preprint builds two working prototypes of a machine that learns to be a computer. The problem: the same instability that makes it novel is why it cannot be trusted in any application that actually matters.

KAIST built an SSD emulator 303x faster than anything else — because the drives it models do not exist yet

A graphene oxide membrane from Kumamoto University hits 0.7 W/cm², matching commercial PFSA performance. The EU PFAS restriction lands by end of 2026. Whether fluorine-free alternatives can fill the gap before then is the real question.

NASA flew four astronauts home on a heat shield that cracked on its first test flight. A former astronaut warned them not to. Now the inspection results will determine whether the fix was enough.

Tesla ended production of the Model S and Model X on April 10, 2026, after 14 years. What it is building instead — the Cybercab robotaxi — has no steering wheel, no pedals, and no federal exemption to operate on public roads.

Tesla won its first European approval for FSD Supervised in the Netherlands today. The catch: the EU version is explicitly not comparable to the US version, RDW says, and EU-wide approval is still a process, not a promise.

The Artemis II crew watched a solar eclipse from behind the moon — 54 minutes of totality, the corona in full profile, and earthshine lighting up lunar features in the dark. No human had ever seen this before.

The Orion heat shield cracked on its first flight. NASA redesigned the trajectory instead of replacing it. Today four astronauts bet their lives on that fix.

The EU has backed a graphene photonics pilot line with 211 million euros of Italian public money. This is not a research grant — it is a bet that the material science is finally ready to be manufactured.

Planet blacked out conflict-zone imagery, and customers received the news retroactively: data they had already paid for had been deleted before they knew it existed.