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The Future of Sustainable Packaging Technology: Innovations Reshaping 2026 and Beyond
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (466+ words) Sustainable packaging is no longer a branding initiative driven by marketing departments. In 2026, it has become an engineering discipline shaped by material science, regulatory policy, automation systems, and lifecycle analytics. As global supply chains stabilize and environmental regulations tighten, packaging…...
Could Gun Recoil Actually Power a Jetpack? The Physics Says… Sort Of
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (499+ words) The What If? series has built its reputation on taking exactly these kinds of questions at face value. Someone asks something that sounds ridiculous, and instead of laughing it off, Munroe and Reich break out the math. In this case,…...
Microsoft Patches Zero-Day Flaws That Let Hackers In With a Single Click
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (420+ words) These aren't theoretical threats sitting in a research lab. The bugs " classified as zero-days because attackers found and weaponized them before Microsoft could issue a patch " were already in active use. Google's Threat Intelligence Group helped identify some of the…...
Pentagon Wants AI Without 'Parental Controls' on Its Most Secret Networks
5+ hour, 7+ min ago (338+ words) The push was outlined during a White House event on Tuesday, where Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael told tech executives the military aims to run AI models across both unclassified and classified domains. The Pentagon is "moving to deploy…...
Why relying on AI may lead to poor decision making
8+ hour, 38+ min ago (427+ words) Example stimuli with facial images shown as silhouettes due to licencing permissions: top is a synthetic face, AI condition; bottom is a real face, human condition. Real faces were obtained from Flikr-Faces-HQ Dataset made available by NVIDIA Corporation under Creative…...
Researchers develop new materials for next-generation X-ray technologies
9+ hour, 38+ min ago (594+ words) The materials used to create X-ray detectors can be rigid, expensive, and laborious to produce. But new research led by FSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry'Professor Biwu Ma is creating lower-cost, adaptable materials that could revolutionize X-ray detection technologies. "We…...
Digital Intimacy 3.0: How Haptics and Spatial Audio Are Redefining Relationships
23+ hour, 4+ min ago (1791+ words) We've come a long way from just watching content online. Digital Intimacy 3.0 is all about designing spaces where people can genuinely feel close, even if they're miles apart. These days, digital platforms aren't just about sharing pictures or messages. They're…...
New Artificial Intelligence Model Could Speed Rare Disease Diagnosis
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (979+ words) An example output from the popEVE portal. The left and center panels show variant scores in chart and list formats, ranging from most likely to cause disease (dark purple) to least likely (yellow). The right panel depicts a protein crystal…...
Twice in One Year: How Giti Tire Helped the YANGWANG U9X Redefine Electric Hypercar Speed
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (773+ words) More than a headline-grabbing feat, this double world-record run signals a paradigm shift for the future of high-performance electric vehicles. With every attempt, the U9X showed that the limits of EV capability are far from being reached'and Giti Tire's breakthrough technologies…...
“Quantum mechanics upended our thinking”
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1002+ words) This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three quantum scientists. How important was their work to quantum research?Klaus Ensslin: Experiments conducted by these three researchers forty years ago demonstrated that quantum mechanical tunnelling also works for macroscopic…...