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Trucks

The self-driving truck is beating the self-driving car to market — long, predictable highway hauls are letting robot big rigs launch years ahead of robotaxis

Sometime in late 2025, an 18-wheeler pulled onto a Texas highway with no one in the cab. It merged into traffic, held its lane for roughly 200 miles between Dallas and Houston, and delivered commercial freight for a paying customer. No safety driver sat behind the wheel. No remote operator toggled the steering. The truck, […]

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The first cars carrying true solid-state batteries are reaching the road this year — promising far more range and no liquid inside to burst into flame

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

CATL says it will start mass-producing sodium-ion EV batteries this year — cells that cost less than lithium and hold up far better in bitter cold

By Rowan Calder

Stellantis is putting solid-state batteries into a demo fleet of Dodge Charger Daytona EVs this year — the first road test of a cell that resists catching fire

By Rowan Calder

The Navy is starting a new long-range anti-submarine weapon program for the first time in a generation — a joint push with Britain and Australia under AUKUS

By Kade Winslow

The Navy just commissioned the destroyer USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. — a new Aegis warship built to shoot down ballistic missiles and shield carrier groups

By Kade Winslow

The U.S. Navy is bringing nuclear-armed cruise missiles back to its attack submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon mothballed for decades

By Everett Sloane

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Science

Physicists in Japan just built a way to instantly read one of the strangest quantum states — a shortcut toward faster quantum networks and teleportation

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Researchers just caught memories being ‘tagged’ onto the brain’s support cells — astrocytes once thought silent now look essential to what you recall

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Scientists just revived failing neurons in dementia-like mice by recharging their mitochondria — and the animals’ lost memories came back

By BeckhamLangford

Health

A targeted pill and a custom mRNA vaccine are both beating back pancreatic cancer in early trials — cracking open one of medicine’s hardest tumors

By BeckhamLangford

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity firms say attackers now weaponize fresh flaws within hours using AI — outracing human defenders in what they’re calling ‘the year of AI-assisted attacks’

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

Amazon’s satellite-internet network just passed 300 satellites in a single year — now the third-largest constellation in orbit and closing on Starlink

By Cassian Holt

Technology

A Chinese lab just wrapped a humanoid robot in soft electronic skin that feels a feather’s touch — letting it handle fragile objects without crushing them

By Cassian Holt

Naval

The Navy is starting a new long-range anti-submarine weapon program for the first time in a generation — a joint push with Britain and Australia under AUKUS

By Kade Winslow

Naval

The Navy just commissioned the destroyer USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. — a new Aegis warship built to shoot down ballistic missiles and shield carrier groups

By Kade Winslow

Military

The Army is testing the M1E3 — a ground-up rebuild of the Abrams tank made lighter and smarter to survive a battlefield crawling with cheap drones

By Kade Winslow

AI

PerturbFate, a new AI, can now forecast how tens of thousands of mutations push cells toward cancer at once — pointing drug makers straight at the ones that matter

By Dorian Maddox

AI

A new AI method just slashed the energy behind every decision a robot makes by a hundredfold — letting machines reason without a data center plugged in behind them

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Japan Airlines just trusted humanoid robots with real airport work for three years — a legacy carrier betting on machines in one of the strictest safety systems on Earth

By Dorian Maddox

AI

A new AI tool just cut the power a robot burns to reason by 100-fold — letting machines think through tasks without a power-hungry data center behind them

By Dorian Maddox

Trucks

The self-driving truck is beating the self-driving car to market — long, predictable highway hauls are letting robot big rigs launch years ahead of robotaxis

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The first cars carrying true solid-state batteries are reaching the road this year — promising far more range and no liquid inside to burst into flame

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

CATL says it will start mass-producing sodium-ion EV batteries this year — cells that cost less than lithium and hold up far better in bitter cold

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Stellantis is putting solid-state batteries into a demo fleet of Dodge Charger Daytona EVs this year — the first road test of a cell that resists catching fire

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

The self-driving truck is beating the self-driving car to market — long, predictable highway routes are letting robot big rigs launch years ahead of robotaxis

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Bosch and Kodiak are about to hand a Texas energy firm its first fully driverless semi-trucks — big rigs that haul sand across open highway with empty cabs

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

An XPeng flying car just clipped another aircraft mid-formation during a demo flight — a crash that casts a shadow over the company’s 2026 mass-production promise

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

U.S. EV range just jumped 11% in a single year — and the fastest chargers now add 100 miles in under 10 minutes as old battery-fade fears fade

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Semi-solid-state EV batteries just started powering light trucks and flying cars — a hybrid cell squeezing out 350 watt-hours per kilogram without bursting into flame

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

Semi-solid-state batteries are jumping out of cars and into flying taxis — packing 350 watt-hours per kilogram into aircraft light enough to lift off

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Driverless big rigs are about to roll onto Texas highways — Bosch and Kodiak are delivering the first level 4 semi-trucks that drive with no one in the cab

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Used electric cars are selling faster than ever — 43,000 changed hands in a single month as long-standing battery-fade fears quietly collapse

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

EV range in the U.S. just jumped 11% in a single year — and the fastest chargers now add 100 miles in under 10 minutes

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A TAP Air Portugal jet just scraped its tail on the runway taking off from Rome — then circled back and landed safely with no injuries

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

California just opened a $1 billion rebate program for electric trucks — offering up to $120,000 off per vehicle to push diesel rigs off the road

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Two-thirds of used electric SUVs still beat their original EPA range after three years — defying the assumption that EV batteries fade fast

By Rowan Calder

Nuclear

The U.S. Navy is bringing nuclear-armed cruise missiles back to its attack submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon mothballed for decades

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A stalled storm just drowned Indonesia’s Jambi province in days of rain — flooding and landslides swept through 21 villages and forced thousands from their homes

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

The U.S. Navy is putting nuclear-tipped cruise missiles back on its submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon retired decades ago

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Two strong earthquakes just rattled the Pacific within hours — a magnitude 5.7 off Papua New Guinea and a 5.6 deep in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands

By Everett Sloane