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A Membrane That Is 75% Crystal Passes CO2 at Very High Speed

Oct 14, 2026

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A Membrane That Is 75% Crystal Passes CO2 at Very High Speed

A Tianjin, EPFL and USC team reports a very fast CO2 membrane. Film thickness and real flue-gas data are missing, so it is a lab result, not a plant.

Oct 12, 2026

Google Put Four AI Chips in Orbit. Now Comes the Hard Part

Oct 11, 2026

The Frontier Week Ahead: Three Deep Dives

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Google’s Gemini Found a Cheaper Way to Watch the World

Gemini now decides which seconds of a video deserve attention. Google says that can cut analysis costs by up to 66%.

Featured : What Survives the Agent Era

The panic was real, and so was the two trillion dollar wipeout. So was the mistake: a blanket verdict on a category that actually splits cleanly in half. Enterprise software is not dying, it is sorting, and the dividing line has nothing to do with how good the AI is.

People Die Waiting for an Organ Every Day. This Lab Wants to Print One.

Two frontiers this edition, biotech and living robots, in plain English.

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frontier technology

The Frontier Week Ahead: Three Deep Dives

Google's first AI chips in orbit, a crystal-packed membrane for capturing CO2, and a way to teach a chatbot to read letters.

Biotech

Cancer Has Two Escape Routes. This Drug Blocks Both

Phrontline has dosed the first patient with an antibody that recognizes two tumor markers and delivers two different poisons. The architecture is the news. The toxicity is the test.

Your Worst Qubit Decides What Your Computer Can Do

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Your Worst Qubit Decides What Your Computer Can Do

A multi-laboratory study hid the performance data from the people examining the chips. The features that decided whether a qubit was any good are a few nanometres across.

National University of Singapore

The Octopus Trick That Makes Robot Arms Thin Again

A Singapore team put electrical contacts along one artificial muscle, so software decides how many muscles it is. The number that would prove it is still unpublished.

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The Frontier Week Ahead: Three Deep Dives

An octopus trick for thin robot arms, the blind test that found what breaks a qubit, and a cancer drug carrying two poisons at once.

Syncona

Where Two Drug Giants Failed, This Startup Just Won

Biogen and Johnson and Johnson both tried to treat an inherited form of blindness by delivering a working copy of the same faulty gene, and both trials missed. Beacon Therapeutics just hit its primary endpoint in an 85-patient trial. The honest question is whether its therapy is actually better, or whether it picked the finish line the first two had already found easier.