NIST is overhauling its IoT cybersecurity guidance for federal agencies while the EU Cyber Resilience Act's first enforcement deadline in September 2026 forces manufacturers to build vulnerability reporting infrastructure from scratch.
University of Edinburgh researchers engineered bacteria to transform PET plastic into levodopa, a frontline Parkinson's medication, achieving 84 percent conversion from industrial waste in a proof-of-concept published in Nature Sustainability.
Epia Neuro emerged from stealth on April 2 with a read/write BCI platform that decodes neural intent and drives a grip-assist prosthetic, targeting first-in-human trials at Lenox Hill Hospital later this year.
The GNU Compiler Collection's next major release enters its final regression-fixing phase with early C++26 support, a new Algol 68 frontend, AMD Zen 6 targets, and a long-awaited shift to C++20 as the default C++ dialect.
Canadian startup Upside Robotics closes a $7.5 million seed round to expand solar-powered autonomous robots that micro-dose fertilizer in corn fields, claiming 70 percent input reduction across 1,300 acres.
The third Iceberg Summit in San Francisco brought 70+ sessions and announcements from Snowflake, Google, Dremio, Databricks, and AWS as the open table format's V3 specification reaches production readiness.
The U.S. energy research agency doubles its cumulative fusion spending in a single announcement, even as the White House proposes cutting the broader fusion budget.
A molecular cage embedded in silica captures short-chain PFAS that elude conventional filters, achieving 98 percent removal in lab tests and remaining effective after five reuse cycles.
Researchers achieved reversible switching between graphene polytypes at 30-nanometer scale using sub-nanonewton forces and sub-femtojoule energy, opening a path to slidetronic memory and neuromorphic computing.
The SWOG S2419 BioFront study is the first large-scale randomized trial testing whether a daily oral bacterial supplement can boost immunotherapy outcomes in advanced kidney cancer.
The TWIN-VT trial used personalized computational heart models to guide ventricular tachycardia ablation, with all 10 patients remaining arrhythmia-free after more than a year.
Spotify's AI playlist tool now generates personalized podcast episode collections from text prompts, rolling out in beta to Premium subscribers across seven English-speaking markets.