New York selected Brooklyn startup It's Electric to install 700 street-level Level 2 chargers across five boroughs over three years. Priority is neighborhoods with many taxi and rideshare drivers; the city aims to fully electrify such vehicles by 2030.
A study in Science Advances shows Gondwana covered about 80% of Earth's continental mass, not 64% as previously thought. Granite samples from the Himalayas dated 20-50 million years old indicate a common continental block, confirming the supercontinent's status and its role in climate changes before the Cambrian explosion.
Scania unveiled a battery electric truck in Europe with a range of up to 720 km on a single charge. Additional MP20 batteries of 356 kWh are placed behind the cab, and a new streamlined front reduces energy consumption by up to 3%. Meanwhile, a consortium with Volvo, Daimler Truck and Toyota presented a plan for hydrogen truck development in Germany.
Using an X-ray detector on a sounding rocket, scientists for the first time documented the formation of metal dendrites — branching structures that form when liquid metal cools — in microgravity. Analysis of the images with machine learning provides data to improve casting and manufacturing of metal parts.
XRISM satellite observations of quasar H1821+643 show turbulent gas flows around the black hole spread energy about 300,000 light-years, with power roughly 100 times higher than previous estimates. Results published in Nature Astronomy.
Lockheed Martin is expanding its Vectis stealth drone program: in addition to the already-built vehicle, four more prototypes will be created to accelerate flight testing and develop fast, low-cost production. First flight is expected by late 2027; the drone is about 34 feet long with a 38-foot wingspan.
Volvo unveiled the new generation XC60 crossover with 124 miles (about 200 km) of electric range and new safety systems. The company aims to maintain the model's leadership amid competition from Chinese super hybrids.
Volvo Trucks has started series production of next-generation electric trucks at its Gothenburg and Ghent plants. The flagship FH Aero Electric with a new e-axle travels up to 435 miles (700 km) on a charge and supports megawatt charging; FH, FM and FMX models reach up to 292 miles. A truck for combinations up to 88 tonnes with a 640 kWh battery was also unveiled.
A Falcon 9 rocket will launch from Vandenberg Base in California for the USSF-259 mission with a four-hour window starting at 21:00 EDT. This is the second launch for the US Space Force in five days and SpaceX's 110th launch in 2026.
Astranis signed an agreement with Saudi operator STC to launch a dedicated microsatellite in geostationary orbit to provide communications in Saudi Arabia. The Block 3 craft is planned for launch in 2027.
Sandia National Laboratories introduced QUOPS, the first comparative benchmark for trapped-ion and superconducting quantum computers. Quantinuum's Helios-1 outperformed Google Willow by 7 times in circuit size, but all systems are 100,000 times behind the performance needed to break RSA-2048.
Einride and Lidl began operating Germany's first SAE Level 4 driverless, cab-less truck on public roads. The Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) issued the permit, and the truck transports goods between a warehouse and a Lidl store.
A consortium led by Nexat, with €1.5 million in ESA funding, is building CableShield, a system that automatically switches traffic to satellite when an undersea cable fails. The project starts with an 18-month development program, with commercial launch expected alongside Telesat's Lightspeed constellation.
Phoenix coated 200 miles of roads with the light-colored CoolSeal sealant: asphalt temperature drops by 10–12 °F, but reflected heat raises the perceived temperature at pedestrian level by about 7 °F. Researchers advise using the coating on roads with low pedestrian traffic and unshaded parking lots.
The US Navy awarded Castelion a production contract worth up to $200 million for the first batch of Blackbeard hypersonic missiles for carrier-based aviation. In June 2026, 50 missiles for early operational capability were ordered. Production takes place in New Mexico and California.
WIRED bought four injectable peptides for $376.20 at a Brooklyn store and sent them for independent testing. None of the vials contained the claimed active ingredient, though heavy metals and endotoxins were low. The peptide market is valued at up to $3 billion, but most such products are not FDA-approved for human use.
NVIDIA added a new CUDA-Q Logical layer to its open CUDA-Q platform for developing and testing fault-tolerant quantum applications on logical qubits. Fermilab cut its architecture development cycle from five months to three weeks, and Iceberg Quantum showed that 1000 logical qubits can be implemented on ~150,000 physical qubits—10 times fewer than previous Diraq estimates.
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory developed a camera and AI system to monitor direct ink writing 3D printing in real time. The system measures filament diameter to micrometer accuracy and analyzes images in milliseconds—about 100,000 times faster than manual measurements.
Startup Planted raised $31.8 million in a round led by Piva Capital and RA Capital Management for technology that installs solar panels using robots guided by a digital terrain twin. The approach cuts land use by 40% or more and speeds up project approvals.
Scientists detected the Zwan-Wolf effect in Mars' ionosphere, normally seen only on planets with strong magnetic fields. The phenomenon was recorded from NASA's MAVEN mission data during a coronal mass ejection in December 2023.
Scientists from the ATLAS collaboration at CERN have for the first time recorded quantum entanglement between Z bosons produced in Higgs boson decay. This is the first observation of entanglement in elementary qutrits—three-state quantum systems; significance is 4.7 sigma based on 400 collision events.
Sweden's Flow Neuroscience began US sales of a prescription wearable for treating depression. The headset is worn on the forehead 30 minutes a day and weakly stimulates the left frontal lobe. It costs $2,200 for 10 weeks and $325 per month thereafter.
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Tesla began deploying the Cybercab robotaxi with electric motors free of rare-earth magnets, reducing reliance on Chinese suppliers. The project also tests the limits of autonomous driving.
Pony.ai and GAC Commercial Vehicle presented an electric Level-4 autonomous truck on the T9 platform at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover. Series production is planned for late 2026, with first vehicles for long-haul, logistics, and ports.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) uses NVIDIA's open-source MONAI framework to build anatomically accurate 3D heart models from CT, MRI, and ultrasound. The model is created in seconds instead of about four hours of manual work, and modeling programs already operate in more than 20 U.S. children's hospitals.
Sceye flew a stratospheric platform across the Pacific for the first time, from New Mexico to Japan. The craft can provide cellular connectivity and surveillance, marking a step toward commercialization.
Google, with Janelia Research Campus, released the connectome of a male fruit fly brain and nerve cord: 166,000 neurons and 125 million synaptic connections. Data obtained via electron microscopy and available through Neuroglancer and Neuroprint.
US Air Force Secretary Maink publicly stated that American weapons are deployed in orbit, calling it a deterrence signal. Arms control experts warn this could prompt China and Russia to accelerate their own orbital programs.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen discovered a signaling hub of proteins TAK1, TAB2, and PKA-Cα in the primary cilium that influences heart formation in embryos. Mutations in these proteins disrupt heart development, potentially explaining some congenital defects that affect 2.3–2.5 million newborns annually.
The UK government pledged GBP30M to the SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands to support orbital launches. The funds will go toward site infrastructure and attracting launch operators.
