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24 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

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

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

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

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

A Turbine That Makes Its Own Pressure With Detonation Waves

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

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

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

A Turbine That Makes Its Own Pressure With Detonation Waves

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