Venture Funding To City’s Startups Hits All-Time High
At the height of the pandemic and the global shift to remote work, tech founders and investors alike…
Are the chips down for AI thanks to Iran?
While Americans anxiously watch the price of gasoline tick higher as the war in the Middle East squeezes…
Innovation plus livelihoods – the twin tracks of China’s 5-year plan
China’s new five-year plan targets both industrial innovation and “people-oriented” livelihoods for all, according to officials with the…
Union Budget 2026-27: Rare earths, semiconductors & Orange Economy – key takeaways
Budget 2026-27 emphasised infrastructure growth, manufacturing boosts, fiscal prudence, and tax simplifications. Union Budget 2026-27, presented by finance…
Physicists Have Achieved Quantum “Alchemy” by Exciting Electrons to High-Energy States
A promising—and powerful—new engineering breakthrough could soon enable researchers to alter the properties of materials by exciting electrons…
Dynamic magneto-chiral instability in photoexcited tellurium
Fukushima, K., Kharzeev, D. E. & Warringa, H. J. Chiral magnetic effect. Phys. Rev. D. 78, 074033 (2008).…
Want to retire from a soul-sucking job? Here are the financial factors to consider.
Published: Jan. 9, 2026 at 2:33 p.m. ET In the Help Me Retire column, Alessandra Malito answers questions from…
Silicon shock is the big ‘26 theme
In the early 2000s, the world of fine spirits broke. Demand for aged whiskey and fine wine exploded…
SEALSQ, WISeKey and WISeSat.Space Successfully Launch Their New Satellite Aboard SpaceX Mission
SEALSQ Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) (“SEALSQ” or “Company”), a company…
Russia’s first AI-powered robot walked on stage to triumphant music, took a few steps, and then immediately faceplanted
Russia’s first domestically produced artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot faceplanted during its first public demonstration this week, underscoring the…
US scientists show light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Light isn’t just illuminating materials anymore, it’s moving them. Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of…
Observation of the nonlinear chiral thermoelectric Hall effect in tellurium
Zhang, Y. J. et al. Enhanced intrinsic photovoltaic effect in tungsten disulfide nanotubes. Nature 570, 349–353 (2019). Article …