Quentin Couprie

Key Takeaways A new paper in Physics Letters B argues general relativity may be incomplete at the extreme densities inside black holes and at the Big Bang. By adding an infinite series of quantum-gravity corrections to Einstein's equations, the authors re... See more

Key Takeaways South Africa's MeerKAT array detected FRB 20240304B in March 2024. Its signal traveled 10.8 billion years, making it the most distant fast radio burst yet recorded. A fast radio burst that flashed for mere milliseconds has been in transit fo... See more

Soft robots usually buy their agility with a mess of pumps, valves, and code. Researchers at North Carolina State University are taking the opposite bet underwater, using a feather star inspired body plan with four elastic wings and only two pneumatic act... See more

Water utilities can filter PFAS out of the flow, but actually destroying the chemicals is the hard part, thanks to carbon-fluorine bonds that shrug off conventional treatment. Researchers from Wuxi University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology,... See more

Key Takeaways Raven, from Graylark Technologies, can infer a home address from an interior photo by matching room details to real estate and rental listings, no GPS or metadata needed. The LAPD and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office are testing it, though Grayla... See more