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Researchers build a drone that navigates with physical whiskers to operate in dark, dusty or smoky places where cameras or GPS can fail — sub-100 gram drones run 34KB software to enable sub-millimeter precision (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-20 | by Jowi Morales | get sub-100 gram micro FPV drone → | tags: delft university of technology, whisker sensor, tactile navigation

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Kenya Unleashing Solar-Powered Ambulance With Wicked Long Range for Service to Remote Villages (futurism.com)

2026-09-20 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: kenya, solar-powered ambulance, stella juva

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Meet the Academics Trying to Stop You From Having Sex in Robotaxis (wired.com)

2026-09-20 | by Aarian Marshall | tags: robotaxis, autonomous vehicles, pavlo bazilinskyy

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Scientists Unleash Franken-Mice With Brains That Are Nearly Half Human (futurism.com)

2026-09-20 | by Frank Landymore | tags: stanford university, sergiu pașca, human neurons

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Researchers create DNA computer that performs 100-bit calculations without electricity — molecular system uses self-assembling strands to perform computing (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-19 | by Etiido Uko | tags: dna computer, maynooth university, dna origami

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Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced (wired.com)

2026-09-18 | by Will Knight | tags: ai slowdown, dario amodei, sam altman

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Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-18 | by Paulina Rowińska | tags: sandwich conjecture, graph theory, random graphs

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Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-18 | get AmScope digital compound microscope with camera → | tags: nikon small world, primary ciliary dyskinesia, tsinghua university

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Scientists develop a way to restore aging EV batteries without breaking them down into raw materials (techspot.com)

2026-09-18 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: deer, cornell university, lithium-ion batteries

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Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: scaleout systems, nato diana, drones

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Ray Ozzie and the Optimism of Being Early (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: ray ozzie, plato system, university of illinois

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Gen Z doesn’t trust anyone—especially their bosses, data shows (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-17 | tags: gen z, workplace trust, washington university in st. louis

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Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | by Who'S Behind This Story | tags: humpback whales, griffith university, sea world foundation

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Why the Best AI Doesn’t Replace People — It Gives Them Their Day Back (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-16 | by Ashish Fernando | get Logitech MX Master 3S wireless mouse → | tags: ai automation, university admissions, slate

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Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-16 | by Antonio Regalado | tags: human brain organoids, stanford university, sergiu pasca

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Four ways to prevent AI killing us all within 10 years (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-16 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: ai snake oil, princeton university, anthropic

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Apple detectives solved mystery of ancient tree and rewrote the history of fruit (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Maryn Mckenna | tags: cameron peace, washington state university, apple genetics

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AI tool turns any paper into an ‘agent’ that can collaborate and answer complex queries (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-16 | by Glickman | tags: paper2agent, ai agents, james zou

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Human brain cells transplanted into mice in ‘most extensive’ integration ever (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-16 | by Kozlov | tags: human brain cells, mouse chimeras, stanford university

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Is it safe to use consumer wearable devices for research? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-16 | by Gewin | get Oura Ring Gen3 → | tags: consumer wearables, smart watches, digital wearables

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Inside South Korea’s university programs offering a direct route to Samsung and SK Hynix (cnbc.com)

2026-09-15 | by Lim Hui Jie Miko Jang | tags: samsung electronics, sk hynix, sogang university

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AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular in every poll (theverge.com)

2026-09-15 | by Richard Lawler | tags: ai data centers, new york times poll, siena university

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This Is the ‘Single Strongest Predictor’ That You’re Getting a Raise, According to Research (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-09-15 | by Sherin Shibu | get Time Timer visual desk clock meeting timer → | tags: meetings, wage growth, national bureau of economic research

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A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-14 | tags: perovskite solar cells, yunnan university, birdman

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Science philanthropy is rising in Brazil ― upending a long tradition (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-14 | by Lenharo | get Reef Life Callum Roberts book → | tags: serrapilheira institute, brazil, science philanthropy

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‘Multifunctional’ brain implant translates speech and gestures in real time (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-14 | by Naddaf | get Neuralink BCI device → | tags: brain–computer interfaces, nature neuroscience, artificial intelligence

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Fraud sealed the fate of controversial zoologist Paul Kammerer — 100 years on, his ideas deserve revisiting (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-14 | by Telford | tags: paul kammerer, academic fraud, nature article

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Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | get ASUS RT-AX86U Pro router → | tags: ntp, university of wisconsin-madison, ddos

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Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | get Ubiquiti UniFi Express router → | tags: network time protocol, university of wisconsin, ddos

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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-13 | by Florin Simion | get Celestron EclipSmart solar telescope → | tags: sun, super-earth, helioseismology