Global EV Sales Up 27% In 2025
Global EV Sales Up 27% In 2025 – Slashdot Summary Rho Motion’s latest snapshot for the first seven months of 2025 shows global electric-vehicle (EV) sales rising 27% year-on-year to…
China is About To Launch SSDs So Small You Insert Them Like a SIM Card
China is About To Launch SSDs So Small You Insert Them Like a SIM Card Summary Chinese storage maker Biwin has unveiled a “Mini SSD” roughly the size of a…
Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots
Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By ‘Consuming’ Other Robots Summary A Columbia University team, partly funded by DARPA, demonstrated tubular robots that move by extending telescopic shafts and…
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger Summary The journal Science has removed an earlier expression of concern and published a substantial, 20-page correction to a 2020…
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders Summary Researchers are making rapid progress towards applying genome-editing directly to the brain. A string of recent mouse…
Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend
Mysterious coffee species turns out to be a blend Summary Detailed analysis of an obscure, hardy coffee plant commonly called liberica shows it is actually three distinct Coffea species. Research…
Daily briefing: These rappelling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels
Daily briefing: These rappelling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels Summary This Nature Briefing (14 August 2025) collects several short, timely research stories. The lead item describes a team of robots…
A mind-reading brain implant that comes with password protection
A mind-reading brain implant that comes with password protection Summary A brain–computer interface (BCI) developed by Kunz et al. decodes imagined (internal) speech in near real time from microelectrode recordings…
Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility
Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility Summary An editorial in Nature criticises US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel 22 grants worth nearly US$500 million for…
Watch a human embryo implant itself — with brute force
Watch a human embryo implant itself — with brute force Summary Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) captured time-lapse footage showing a human embryo physically plunging into…