SwRI COO Ben Thacker wants to do bigger, bolder projects
Southwest Research Institute has named Ben Thacker as its new chief operating officer. In his new role, Thacker…
Self-powered vibration sensor for wearable health care and voice detection
When people breathe, speak, sing or clear their throats, their bodies are in constant motion. Air flowing through…
LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight
We demonstrate that the visual performance of those working under standard LED is significantly improved by exposure to…
Portugal’s hypersonic test ‘generates flow hotter than Sun’s surface’
Portugal has entered the small group of countries with experimental capability in hypersonic research after completing its first…
How Burj Khalifa still defies wind, heat, gravity in 2026: Engineering secrets of world’s tallest building revealed
Burj Khalifa Was Never Meant to Be This Tall: Design Trick That Lets Dubai’s Skyscraper ‘Confuse the Wind’…
North America’s largest wildlife overpass opens in Colorado
About 100,000 vehicles travel in the remote area each day, the Colorado Department of Transportation said. See the…
Alexandr Wang says the next Bill Gates will be a 13-year-old who is ‘vibe coding’ right now
Alexandr Wang—who became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24—is now, at 28, running one of the most…
What we know about MIT nuclear physicist Nuno FG Loureiro
Investigators continue to search for the gunman who shot and killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G.…
This Pitch Deck Got Valerie Health $30 Million From Redpoint Ventures
When Valerie Health CEO Peter Shalek demos his product to clinicians, he has an unusual pitch: “This is…
Police search Brown University after shooter kills 2, injures 9
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A gunman dressed in black killed at least two people and injured nine others at Brown University…