MIT-led team receives award of up to $53 million for AI-guided herbicide research
MIT says ARPA-H has awarded an MIT-led team up to $53 million to develop alternatives to existing herbicides using generative artificial intelligence.
Federal inquiry examines Waymo's school bus recall remedy
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a recall-related inquiry covering approximately 3,000 Waymo vehicles to examine whether a software remedy adequately prevents them from passing stopped school buses, Reuters reported.
Caltech robot assembles antenna support section in orbit
A Caltech robot funded by DARPA assembled an antenna truss section from individual components in orbit, demonstrating a way to construct space structures from smaller parts.
Researchers concentrate milk at room temperature using an electric field
Researchers at IMB-CNM-CSIC and the Autonomous University of Barcelona demonstrated a method that concentrates skim milk at room temperature without altering its main protein structures.
Microscope upgrade tracks individual energy carriers through materials
Columbia researchers demonstrated a microscope technique that distinguishes individual quantum energy carriers as they move through materials, including single electrons in a two-dimensional semiconductor.
Perovskite system preserves spin polarization for approximately 5 nanoseconds
Researchers led by HKUST's Lu Haipeng developed a perovskite system that preserves spin polarization approximately 300 times longer at room temperature, reaching approximately 5 nanoseconds. The study was published in Nature Photonics.