Veerabhadran Ramanathan was awarded the 2026 Crafoord Prize for his climate change research, highlighting particulate and gas impacts on the atmosphere.

Scientists from The Ohio State University and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras developed PURE, an AI tool to speed up drug discovery by generating viable molecular structures.

WSU is developing smart home sensors led by Diane Cook to monitor residents' health, predicting the future of aging in place with AI-enhanced personal care.

The MSOE Undergraduate Research Showcase highlighted diverse student research on topics like EM absorbers, galaxy cluster mass, and disease containment in space.

York Space Systems raised $629M in an upsized IPO and saw shares open above the offering price, valuing the Denver company at roughly $4.75B. The listing spotlights Denver’s growing role in the space supply chain.

Fremont's massive Tesla factory is about to stop making the electric cars that built the company's reputation—replacing them with humanoid robots just as the automaker posts its worst financial performance in years. The ambitious pivot promises more local jobs, but the timing raises questions about whether this is visionary reinvention or a desperate escape from a cratering car business.

Meta plans to double AI investment to over $100 billion in 2023, despite layoffs, aiming for higher productivity and a flatter organization structure as per CEO Zuckerberg. Concerns arise over AI exuberance in the tech industry.

A University of Utah study of Azores clouds finds the 2020 shipping‑fuel switch changed droplet size and rainfall but left cloud reflectivity largely unchanged. The results complicate simple assumptions about aerosol cuts and warming.

Commerce is reportedly planning a national AI center in San Francisco, a rare federal expansion into the city's booming AI office market.

A Fort Worth‑linked Zero‑G helmet cleared a critical design review and is slated for pilot testing in 2027, though public records show a $16M development award.

SK hynix said it will commit $10 billion to a U.S. AI company built through Rancho Cordova‑based Solidigm, signaling a major local bet on AI infrastructure and jobs. The reorganization will repurpose Solidigm as the U.S. hub for SK’s AI investments.

ORNL researchers use the world's first exascale computer, Frontier, to quicken plant research with a new method, D-CHAG, that speeds up hyperspectral image analysis and reduces memory usage.

Researchers at the University of Maine and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an efficient method to produce cellulose nanofibers using "mini tornadoes" to rapidly dry wet slurry, potentially replacing plastics in various applications.