techkahwa.net | 2 January 2026 Researchers working on EAST, China’s experimental tokamak fusion device, report that they pushed plasma density well beyond the Greenwald limit, a ceiling that fusion scientists have treated as a practical boundary for decades. According to their paper in Science Advances, published on 1 January, EAST reached densities between 1.3 and … Read more
techkahwa.net | 21 November 2025 Brain-computer interface company Paradromics said on 20 November that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved an Investigational Device Exemption for its Connect-One Early Feasibility Study. In plain terms, the company now has permission to start testing its Connexus implant in people, with the goal of restoring speech and … Read more
techkahwa.net | 18 November 2025 A new satellite built to track rising seas is now in orbit. Sentinel-6B lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg in California, and it is designed to measure sea levels down to roughly an inch for about 90% of the world’s oceans. It will take over from its … Read more
techkahwa.net | 18 November 2025 Google DeepMind has launched WeatherNext 2, a new AI weather model that Google says produces hundreds of possible forecast scenarios from a single input in under one minute on a single TPU. The company also says it runs 8 times faster than the original WeatherNext and beats it on 99.9% … Read more
techkahwa.net | 14 November 2025 NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, two identical spacecraft built to study how the solar wind stripped Mars’ atmosphere, lifted off on 13 November aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. The probes will not head straight for Mars: they will first park near a point a million miles from Earth and wait for … Read more
techkahwa.net | 4 November 2025 The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced on 3 November that development of Rashid Rover 2 is complete in the UAE, and the rover is now heading to the United States for its next phase with Firefly Aerospace. Its target is the far side of the Moon, a region … Read more
techkahwa.net | 23 October 2025 Google says its Willow quantum chip has completed a calculation called Quantum Echoes 13,000 times faster than the best classical algorithm running on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The company calls it the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage, and the work is published in Nature. What happened On 22 … Read more
techkahwa.net | 8 October 2025 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”. These are crystals designed to be full of empty space, and the Academy lists uses ranging from harvesting water out of … Read more
techkahwa.net | 6 October 2025 The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”. Their work identified regulatory T cells, the cells that keep the immune system from attacking the body’s own healthy tissue, and the gene … Read more
techkahwa.net | 25 September 2025 Biotech company uniQure reported on 24 September that its experimental gene therapy AMT-130 produced a statistically significant 75% slowing of Huntington’s disease progression at 36 months in patients who received the high dose. These are topline results announced by the company, not yet peer reviewed, and the treatment is not … Read more