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NASA JPL tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at up to 120 kilowatts, a step toward megawatt-class nuclear electric propulsion systems for human Mars missions.

A continuously doped diamond capsule helped the National Ignition Facility produce a record 8.6 megajoules of fusion energy with target gain greater than four.

Current Biology researchers observed an Asgard archaeon and bacterium physically interacting through nanotubes, offering a living model for early eukaryotic partnerships.

Eon combined the adult fruit fly connectome, connectome-constrained brain models, and NeuroMechFly physics to make a virtual fly body controlled by a brain-scale neural model.

Philipp Dorau and Albert Much argue that the semiclassical Einstein equations can follow from quantum relative entropy, reframing gravity as something emerging from quantum information.

IBM Research presented a roadmap for pushing chip patterning beyond 2 nm nodes with High-NA EUV, stochastic-risk reduction, new masks, better resists, and manufacturable process…

Waymo introduced a generative world model for autonomous driving simulation, using camera and lidar outputs to test rare, dangerous, and counterfactual road situations before cars…

MIT CSAIL researchers introduced EnCompass, a framework that lets LLM agents backtrack, clone runtimes, and search over possible execution paths to improve long-horizon problem solving.

Researchers on China's EAST tokamak reported access to a density-free plasma regime, challenging a long-standing density barrier in magnetic confinement fusion.

Tencent's Hunyuan3D work points toward AI-assisted game and avatar production, converting text, sketches, and images into editable 3D assets with geometry, texture, and PBR material…