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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.

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…

L-R Asaad, Morello, Madzik (composite image): Serwan Asaad, Andrea Morello, and Mateusz Mądzik are lead authors of the UNSW paper which demonstrated 99 percent error-free…