Underwater robots called ROVs are transforming oil and gas, marine research, and defence worldwide. With Nigeria’s vast offshore infrastructure and Niger Delta coastline, local ROV expertise is no longer optional — it is a strategic necessity.
Today, as AlphaFold evolves into its fourth generation and continues to set new records in speed, accuracy, and scientific reach, the world is waking up to a stunning reality: artificial intelligence has not just improved biology. It has fundamentally transformed it. Image: Firefly
Tamarind Bio cofounders Sherry Liu and Deniz Kavi. Cheri Tran Snaps.
Building an AI infrastructure for biotech. Bacteria that munch on cancer. How to best make a cold brew. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.
A high-power laser (red) strikes a solid wire, creating a hot plasma and accelerating fast electrons into the material. These fast, hot electrons are met by a return current of colder electrons flowing in the opposite direction, forming filament-like structures that have been visualized for the first time using the LCLS. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
© Plasma Power From Russia Could Send Astronauts To Mars In 30 Days. Credit: Master Sgt. Andrew Moseley
Inside the JET tokamak, showing the vacuum vessel and superimposed plasma. (UKAEA, courtesy of EUROfusion)
Researchers and amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod kept track of 3I/ATLAS using GOES-19 weather satellite data. (Image credit: Image: CCOR-1/GOES-19/NOAA. Processed and annotated by Worachate Boonplod.)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 19, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)
In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups are developing. The document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.
Goodbye to 24-hour days—an astrophysicist warns that the Earth’s rotation is accelerating and we could experience the shortest day in history in a matter of weeks
