Daily briefing: These rappelling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels Summary This Nature Briefing (14 August 2025) collects short, timely reports across robotics, ecology, materials science, climate impacts and physics. The…
No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritise El Reg, others in search results Summary Google has started rolling out a “preferred sources” feature (US and India) that lets…
Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super Summary Researchers using El Capitan, the world’s most powerful publicly known supercomputer, have created a new real-time…
Summary Twenty years after Michelin introduced the Tweel (2005), airless tyre concepts still haven’t made it to mainstream passenger cars. A recent feature (via Jalopnik) explains why: while the idea…
How Maclaren Racing Gets From the Browser to the Track Summary In this Dark Reading News Desk interview from Google’s “There’s No Place Like Chrome” event, Dr Lisa Jarman of…
Daily briefing: Why some places on our bodies heal without scars Summary Nature’s daily briefing (13 August 2025) gathers a handful of short, timely science stories. The lead item examines…
Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger Summary The journal Science has lifted an expression of concern on a high-profile 2020 paper that claimed evidence for Majorana…
Brain editing now ‘closer to reality’: the gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders Summary Recent advances in gene-editing tools — notably prime editing and base editing, both offshoots of CRISPR —…
.NET 10 preview out now, likely to be near feature-complete Summary Microsoft has released Preview 7 of .NET 10 (runtime and frameworks). Highlights include a new WebSocketStream API that exposes…
Who made the demo list for Trump’s fast-track nuclear reactor scheme? Summary America’s Department of Energy (DoE) has selected ten companies — representing 11 projects — to participate in a…
