Hard Tech

3D-printed “superalloy” could make power plants more efficient
The material is both stronger and lighter than those used to make conventional turbines.
This soft brain implant unfurls its arms under the skull
A soft brain implant that unfurls under the skull could make implantation surgeries less costly and risky.
MIT breakthrough creates world’s smallest holographic microscope
The world’s smallest holographic microscope foreshadows a future in which smartphones could be used for high-res microscopy.
Snails wearing smallest computer solve extinction mystery
Many amputees couldn’t afford a bionic arm — until now
How lasers will create ‘uncrashable’ cars
A new kind of haptic wearable: GPS for the blind
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A robot could save farmers from being buried alive in grain
Major airlines preorder hundreds of flying taxis
New kind of nuclear reactor to be built at retiring coal plant
McDonald’s is replacing human drive-thru attendants with AI
Lithium mining just became a water sport
Volcanoes to power bitcoin mining in El Salvador