This breakthrough provides a model for greener, smarter, and larger-scale operations. On Thrusday, the People’s Daily reported that China has achieved a major industrial breakthrough in extracting lithium, a critical metal for electric vehicle batteries, by launching the world’s first 20,000-tonne production line that uses novel technology to extract lithium from salt lake brine. RELATED: […]

The new technology makes the system equal in power to a 72-qubit quantum processor. On Monday, the Russian Quantum Center (RQC) confirmed that Russian scientists have created the country’s first ion-based quantum computer using a new type of quantum unit that works with seven energy levels. RELATED: Russia Condemns U.S. Actions Toward Venezuela The new […]

Among the priority areas are artificial intelligence, quantum physics and cybersecurity, and life sciences. On Tuesday, the Canadian government pledged to invest 1.7 billion Canadian dollars (US$1.23 billion) over the next 12 years to attract more than 1,000 of the world’s top researchers to the country. RELATED: G7 Meeting Ends Without Addressing U.S. Caribbean Strikes […]

President Nicolás Maduro announced a new phase in Venezuela’s space and technology agenda, including the country’s first mini-satellite built entirely by local scientists and continued cooperation with China.

More than 10,000 researchers and 11,000 fellows from CONICET say their purchasing power has fallen by 40% since 2023. On Wednesday, workers from Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) will launch a 48-hour protest against the policies of far-right President Javier Milei, which have severely undermined the Argentine scientific system. RELATED: Argentina’s Milei […]

One of the discoveries being recognized this year concerns the construction of spectacular proteins, said Heiner Linke. On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for computational protein design, and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. RELATED: […]

Artificial neural networks have become integral to daily life, with applications such as facial recognition and language translation. On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to two scientists, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton, for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning […]

The exoplanet WASP-107b has very low density and relatively low gravity, resulting in a more inflated atmosphere. An international team of astronomers, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has glimpsed an especially inflated and asymmetric exoplanet, revealing a significant difference between the two edges of its atmosphere. RELATED: China’s Tianwen-3 Mission To Bring Back Samples […]