These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary Researchers describe a new hollow optical-fibre design that guides light through air rather than solid glass. The structure consists…
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aeroplanes, drones and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) craft are progressing…
Sexless seeds: how self-cloning crops could soon transform our food Summary As early as next month, a field trial in eastern Australia will test Hy-Gain sorghum plants engineered to produce…
This is the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’: its goal is to stop dengue Summary The Wolbito do Brasil facility in Curitiba is the world’s largest production site for Wolbachia-modified Aedes…
Liquid-crystal specs refocus with the push of a button Summary After more than 200 years, bifocal spectacles are getting a modern update. Researchers report a liquid-crystal lens that can change…
Inside a mosquito factory Summary There’s an unusual factory in Curitiba, Brazil, that breeds millions of mosquitoes to fight the diseases those insects spread. The site can produce about one…
India hails ‘first’ home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs Summary India’s government celebrated the VIKRAM-3201 — a locally developed processor from the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) linked to…
‘Huge architectural change’ to JetBrains ReSharper cuts Visual Studio freezes Content summary JetBrains has shipped a major architectural change to ReSharper in the 2025.2 preview: an out-of-process (OOP) engine intended…
New Study Proves EVs Are Always Cleaner Than Gas Cars Summary Researchers at the University of Michigan have published a lifecycle analysis and an interactive calculator showing that electric vehicles…
This is the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’: its goal is to stop dengue Summary The Wolbito do Brasil facility in Curitiba is the world’s largest factory breeding Aedes aegypti mosquitoes…
