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A Chinese company has created a sodium-ion battery that performs nearly as well as Tesla's lithium-ion batteries, potentially solving supply chain issues while cutting costs. The breakthrough could make electric vehicles more affordable and sustainable.
Ghana's football association just landed a three-year partnership that will give thousands of young players across the country better equipment, coaching, and a shot at competing nationally. The deal launches a groundbreaking under-17 league designed to discover the next generation of soccer stars.
After two decades as a university professor, Maysam Ghovanloo made the leap to industry chip design and discovered a whole new world. His insights reveal why the booming semiconductor field needs more designers and what academics should know before making the switch.
Waymo just launched a minivan-style robotaxi built from the ground up to be more comfortable, affordable, and rider-friendly than anything before it. After years of development and half a million weekly paid rides, the company is bringing lessons learned into a vehicle designed to finally make robotaxis work at scale.
A graphic designer with a passion for rock art stopped on a hillside during a drive with his daughter and discovered Bronze Age ships, footprints, and handprints carved 3,000 years ago. The rare sandstone carvings are helping preserve Norway's disappearing ancient heritage.
Taiwan is calling on Malaysia's healthcare and tech sectors to help shape the future of digital health through a global competition offering $30,000 prizes. The campaign aims to connect innovators across borders to build smart healthcare systems that can scale worldwide.
German researchers just solved one of solar energy's biggest design problems: making panels that look good on buildings. Their new aluminum facades with built-in solar cells are as attractive as they are powerful.
A Manhattan startup built a self-driving lab where AI designs new materials around the clock, running as many experiments in a day as human scientists complete in a year. The breakthrough could speed up solutions for clean energy, longer-lasting jet engines, and fusion power.
A reimagined royal garden inspired by Venus's orbital pattern opens to visitors at Windsor Castle this summer. The 200-year-old space features wildflower meadows, 11,000 spring bulbs, and pathways designed around celestial geometry.
Chinese wind turbine giant Mingyang is establishing R&D operations in Hamburg to design turbines specifically for European markets. The move signals growing collaboration in renewable energy across continents.
Designer Tory Burch's foundation is closing the funding gap for women entrepreneurs, with fellows generating nearly half a billion dollars toward a $1 billion goal by 2030. Over 91% of the program's 500+ fellows are still thriving in business after five years.
Over 1,100 hectares of historic Cornish moorland just became England's 14th National Nature Reserve, protecting rare species while creating new opportunities for communities in one of Cornwall's most economically disadvantaged regions. The Mid Cornwall Moors designation more than doubles the actively managed conservation land in the area.
New York's youngest mayor in over a century combined his Muslim faith and Premier League fandom in the most joyful way. Zohran Mamdani showed up to Eid al-Adha prayers wearing a custom kurta designed after Arsenal's jersey.
Brazil is paving a highway through the Amazon rainforest with an unprecedented environmental monitoring system designed to prevent deforestation. The government calls it "the most modern road in the world" from an environmental standpoint, pairing $75 million in infrastructure with forest safeguards.
A 212-million-year-old reptile discovered in New Mexico looked almost exactly like a small dinosaur, but it was actually a crocodile relative that evolved the same body plan over 100 million years earlier. This "witch croc" shows how nature can arrive at the same brilliant solution twice.
India's Ola Electric just got the green light to launch an electric scooter designed specifically for delivery drivers and fleet operators. With rising fuel prices squeezing gig workers, this commercial EV could arrive as early as this quarter.
A Princeton fusion energy company just secured $100 million to build a reactor that could deliver unlimited clean power by 2034. Their clever magnet design might finally make fusion energy affordable.
Two new AI systems are helping scientists generate research ideas and design experiments in hours instead of weeks. Robin and Co-Scientist are already showing promise in finding new uses for existing drugs.
Reading High School is opening its specialized Innovation Academy to all incoming ninth graders through a creative new seminar program. The district designed the solution to meet state requirements while giving every student equal access to career pathway programs.
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A beloved 200-year-old tree illegally cut down in 2023 will live on through art that turns its rings into music. The winning design invites people worldwide to share their memories of the iconic sycamore.
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