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38 stories for“building science”

Mars missions made headlines, but the deeper value lies in research, Earth observation, engineering skills and a private space sector with regional reach.

Jul 28, 2026

Technology

Ancient Iron Meteorites Show the Solar System Sorted Its Building Blocks by Fire From the Very Start

Analysis of iron meteorites found their parent bodies were built almost entirely from heat-forged chondrules rather than water-rich dust, pushing selective planet-building back to the Solar System's first million years.

Sep 29, 2026

Technology

CERN Has Begun Dismantling the Large Hadron Collider to Build Its More Powerful Successor

Crews have been cutting into the tunnel since 7 September, removing 28 superconducting magnets on either side of the ATLAS and CMS detectors, the first physical step in a four-year rebuild meant to triple the collider's collision rate.

Sep 26, 2026

Technology

MIT Wired Bacteria Into Transistors. Its Biggest Circuit Is Twenty-Four Colonies on a Dish That Takes Eight Hours to Add

Engineered colonies of a plant bacterium pass chemical signals across five millimetres of agar, switching each other on and off like components on a board. The team built adders, routers and logic gates. The point is a computer that can grow on a leaf.

Sep 8, 2026

Technology

Duke Physicists Used a 13-Ion Quantum Computer to Recreate How the Early Universe Made Matter

Christopher Monroe's team encoded string breaking, the process by which a stretching bond between particles conjures new matter into existence, onto a chain of trapped ions, a phenomenon last seen naturally moments after the Big Bang.

Sep 27, 2026

Technology

Webb Maps an Exoplanet's Atmosphere as Egg-Shaped, With a Puffed-Up Evening Side Hotter Than Its Morning Edge

Astronomers used a new method on the hot Jupiter WASP-17b to read the shape of its air around the rim, finding a bigger, hotter evening limb that matches what weather models predicted.

Oct 18, 2026

Technology

Gannets Survive 70 mph Dives Thanks to an Extra Joint Facet in Their Neck Bones, a New Study Finds

CT scans of seabird skeletons show plunge-diving birds have stockier neck vertebrae with an added bracing surface, a design that may also help fossil hunters spot ancient divers.

Oct 13, 2026

Technology

Bronze Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria Found in the Sunken Royal Palace on Antirhodos

Underwater archaeologists working in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour have recovered a signet ring that appears to show the vanished ancient wonder, the first such image known on a seal ring.

Oct 13, 2026

Technology

Google Makes Gemini 4 Argon Widely Available, With a Half-Price Launch Rate Until 30 November

Google's newest frontier model is now open to developers, businesses and paying app users, at an introductory $2 and $10 per million tokens that doubles once the promotion ends.

Oct 15, 2026

Technology

Anthropic Signs a 20-Year Lease for Its First Canadian Data Centre at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia

EverWind will build a 95-megawatt first phase on an existing industrial site, scaling to 420 megawatts by 2028, in a C$10 billion plan that has already drawn political questions.

Oct 18, 2026

Technology

A Turbine That Makes Its Own Pressure With Detonation Waves

Researchers generated electricity from a hydrogen turbine that compresses using detonation rather than a mechanical compressor. Removing that component changes the efficiency ceiling.

Aug 6, 2026

Technology

Hackers Are Running Autonomous Attack Scans on Other People's AI Accounts, Bitsight Finds

A criminal tool called MONST3R-AI is sold to attackers who plug in stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google keys, so the victim pays for every scan, according to Bitsight.

Oct 18, 2026

Technology

For the First Time, Saudi Team Lynx Takes the Top Spot at the Aramco STEM Racing World Finals in Singapore

King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, an Aramco initiative, announces that, for the first time, the First Place win for the STEM Racing World Finals at Singapore goes to Saudi team Lynx.

Oct 17, 2026

Technology

Life Runs on Four Letters. A Bacterial Enzyme Has Just Read Eight Without Being Told

RNA polymerase from E. coli transcribed a synthetic eight-letter genetic alphabet using the same signals it uses for natural DNA. The finding, in Nature Communications, means cells may not need rewiring to speak an expanded language.

Sep 6, 2026

Technology

Physicists Made Entangled Photons Out of Ordinary Sunlight, Which Was Supposed to Require a Laser

A team in Ottawa and Erlangen put a window sized lens in the sun, funnelled the light down a glass cone into a fibre the width of a hair, and got entangled photons at ninety four per cent fidelity. The Sun is not supposed to be able to do this.

Aug 25, 2026

Technology

The DeepSeek Moment: How One Cheap Model Rattled Wall Street

A Chinese startup's R1 model wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia's value in a single day, exposing how fragile the AI spending story had become.

Jan 29, 2025

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The UAE’s Space Programme Is Building an Economy of Curiosity

Ancient Iron Meteorites Show the Solar System Sorted Its Building Blocks by Fire From the Very Start

CERN Has Begun Dismantling the Large Hadron Collider to Build Its More Powerful Successor

MIT Wired Bacteria Into Transistors. Its Biggest Circuit Is Twenty-Four Colonies on a Dish That Takes Eight Hours to Add

Duke Physicists Used a 13-Ion Quantum Computer to Recreate How the Early Universe Made Matter

Webb Maps an Exoplanet's Atmosphere as Egg-Shaped, With a Puffed-Up Evening Side Hotter Than Its Morning Edge

Gannets Survive 70 mph Dives Thanks to an Extra Joint Facet in Their Neck Bones, a New Study Finds

Bronze Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria Found in the Sunken Royal Palace on Antirhodos

Google Makes Gemini 4 Argon Widely Available, With a Half-Price Launch Rate Until 30 November

Anthropic Signs a 20-Year Lease for Its First Canadian Data Centre at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia

A Turbine That Makes Its Own Pressure With Detonation Waves

Hackers Are Running Autonomous Attack Scans on Other People's AI Accounts, Bitsight Finds

For the First Time, Saudi Team Lynx Takes the Top Spot at the Aramco STEM Racing World Finals in Singapore

Life Runs on Four Letters. A Bacterial Enzyme Has Just Read Eight Without Being Told

Physicists Made Entangled Photons Out of Ordinary Sunlight, Which Was Supposed to Require a Laser

The DeepSeek Moment: How One Cheap Model Rattled Wall Street

Results

The UAE’s Space Programme Is Building an Economy of Curiosity

Ancient Iron Meteorites Show the Solar System Sorted Its Building Blocks by Fire From the Very Start

CERN Has Begun Dismantling the Large Hadron Collider to Build Its More Powerful Successor

MIT Wired Bacteria Into Transistors. Its Biggest Circuit Is Twenty-Four Colonies on a Dish That Takes Eight Hours to Add

Duke Physicists Used a 13-Ion Quantum Computer to Recreate How the Early Universe Made Matter

Webb Maps an Exoplanet's Atmosphere as Egg-Shaped, With a Puffed-Up Evening Side Hotter Than Its Morning Edge

Gannets Survive 70 mph Dives Thanks to an Extra Joint Facet in Their Neck Bones, a New Study Finds

Bronze Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria Found in the Sunken Royal Palace on Antirhodos

Google Makes Gemini 4 Argon Widely Available, With a Half-Price Launch Rate Until 30 November

Anthropic Signs a 20-Year Lease for Its First Canadian Data Centre at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia

A Turbine That Makes Its Own Pressure With Detonation Waves

Hackers Are Running Autonomous Attack Scans on Other People's AI Accounts, Bitsight Finds

For the First Time, Saudi Team Lynx Takes the Top Spot at the Aramco STEM Racing World Finals in Singapore

Life Runs on Four Letters. A Bacterial Enzyme Has Just Read Eight Without Being Told

Physicists Made Entangled Photons Out of Ordinary Sunlight, Which Was Supposed to Require a Laser

The DeepSeek Moment: How One Cheap Model Rattled Wall Street