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  • Can AI Build a Robot? New Benchmark Tests Whether Coding Agents Understand the Physical World

    Researchers at Harvard and Georgia Tech have created RLE-Bench, a 48-task test of whether general-purpose AI agents can do the work of robotics engineers. Current systems can write controllers, train robot policies, interpret sensor data and produce mechanical designs; the results also expose a persistent weakness when apparently sensible designs meet basic physics. Artificial intelligence…

  • Astronomica Expands Its Publishing Model Into Design, Digital PR and Independent Media

    British publishing company Astronomica Ltd is expanding beyond its original publishing work into a broader combination of design, web infrastructure, communications and digital media services. The expansion brings together several projects the company has been developing across publishing and online media, including Camelot House Publishing, The Epoch and its recently launched SALAMANDER web platform. Rather…

  • Are they building a Nuclear Bomb in Sheffield? University of Sheffield Confirmed as Hidden Partner in the UK’s Next Nuclear Warhead

    A research facility at the University of Sheffield has been quietly assisting the Ministry of Defence’s programme to build Britain’s next nuclear warhead, according to an investigation published by independent outlet The Sheffield Tribune in July 2025. The Tribune found that the university’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has hosted a secure cell operated by…

  • NASA Reopens the Question of How Clean Is Clean Enough for Mars

    NASA is taking another look at one of the less visible but increasingly important challenges of Mars exploration: how to make sure spacecraft from Earth do not bring Earth life with them. On 28 August, NASA announced the creation of an external expert team called M-FORCE — the Mars Forward Operational Risk and Contamination Evaluation.…

  • AI Detects Heart Disease From an ECG in Under Two Seconds: What the Imperial College Research Found

    An artificial intelligence system developed by Imperial College London researchers can extract signs of heart failure and heart valve disease from routine electrocardiograms in under two seconds. Trained on millions of ECGs and tested on 67,000 US patients, the system could eventually help doctors decide who needs an urgent heart scan; researchers are now testing…

  • DSIT is gone. Nobody’s confirmed where its £9bn budget and dozens of agencies actually landed.

    When Andy Burnham scrapped the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in his first Cabinet reshuffle as Prime Minister, the story that ran everywhere was the shape of the thing: a three-year-old department folded into a reformed business department, with digital functions peeled off to culture and media, and artificial intelligence elevated to a new…

  • How Your WiFi Router Learned to Watch You – Wifi and Surveillance

    For most of its existence, WiFi has been treated as plumbing: invisible infrastructure that moves data between a router and a device, and nothing more. That assumption no longer holds. A growing body of research, now backed by an official industry standard, shows that the radio signals carrying your internet connection can also be read…

  • Did the Media Kill Jason Arday? What the Evidence Actually Shows

    Jason Arday died after weeks of escalating scrutiny over plagiarism allegations, his academic record and his personal history. He had previously been cleared of plagiarism by the university that awarded his doctorate; days before his death, he said relentless public commentary had taken a profound toll. His case raises a difficult question about what happens…

  • Memory, Priced Like Oil: RAM Prices in 2026 and AI

    A structural shortage driven by AI infrastructure demand has pushed DRAM prices up by hundreds of percent in under a year, reshaping consumer electronics, data centre economics and the semiconductor supply chain through at least 2027. RAM is no longer a background component. Across 2026, dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) has moved from being a stable,…

  • Paper101 Debuts as an Independent Authority on Paper Science, From ISO 216 Sizing to Pulp Manufacturing

    The Materials Journalism Foundation has launched Paper101, an independent reference website dedicated to the composition, manufacture, sizing and behaviour of paper, extending the organisation’s model of specialist materials journalism beyond its existing project, tar.fyi. Paper101 is positioned as a technical resource rather than a general-interest blog. Its stated scope covers international paper sizing systems, fibre…