The tea leaves were only the beginning: China’s robots found out why real work is harder outside the lab

China has sent humanoid robots into the tea mountains of Fujian, not for a clean laboratory demo, but for the messy work of ...

Building the world’s first garden stadium means hanging four rings of trees from steel cables, and China has already lifted the frame

China has lifted the first steel structure for Serbia’s garden stadium, where suspended green rings define the design.

Building school walls in 18 hours with 3D printing turns missing classrooms into an infrastructure problem with a faster answer

A classroom wall is usually not the part of a school that makes headlines. In Malawi, it did. A 3D-printed school in Salima ...

NASA’s space fuel stations could turn orbit into a logistics hub, and the first satellite will test whether the plan can work

What if a spacecraft did not have to leave Earth carrying every drop of fuel it will need? NASA is moving that idea from ...

Canada’s mines may be sitting on a hidden fuel: white hydrogen is escaping from ancient rocks and could change local energy

Hydrogen gas is quietly building up under the Canadian Shield, and researchers now say it could point to a new source of ...

Elon Musk’s Tesla is stuck waiting for China’s green light, while XPENG’s mass-produced robotaxi pushes the next urban mobility war forward

XPENG has moved China’s robotaxi race out of the demo stage and onto the factory floor. On May 18, 2026, the Chinese EV maker ...

A California lab is using 192 laser beams to recreate the inside of stars, and the real prize is not science fiction anymore

Inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, a machine the size of a sports stadium is doing something that ...

Australia is placing giant structures on the seafloor about 0.5 miles offshore to feed a desalination system targeting 30 million liters a day, roughly 7.9 million gallons ...

Australia is pushing a major water project out of sight, under the waves and beneath the sand. Off Nine Mile Beach in New ...

Another legacy automaker is being squeezed by weaker EV demand and subsidy dynamics, a reminder that the transition is now punishing big names that can’t mov…

The Japanese automaker has posted its first annual loss as a listed company since 1957, after a costly reset of its EV ...

One of the world’s largest salt mines sits hidden under Lake Erie, an underground industrial city carved beneath the water that most people on the surface never realiz…

The Whiskey Island salt mine sits about 1,800 feet beneath the surface of Lake Erie, reached from an industrial stretch of ...

California rolled out its first AI-driven highway management system, aiming to smooth traffic and cut congestion by using real-time data to manage responses inst…

Starting May 4, nine traffic signals on Highway 68 between San Benancio Road and Josselyn Canyon Road began operating under ...

Finland opened what’s being billed as the first facility for permanently disposing of spent nuclear fuel, a milestone meant to turn nuclear waste from “temporary storag…

Finland prepares to seal nuclear waste deep underground, a permanent solution the world has long struggled to build.