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Gene-edited pig kidneys have entered FDA-cleared clinical trials, a $176.8 million federal program is funding five teams to bioprint livers, and new cryopreservation methods could extend organ viability from hours to days.
NASA's Perseverance rover gains autonomous navigation and AI-planned driving while the ESCAPADE twin spacecraft head for Mars orbit, but Congress's cancellation of Mars Sample Return hands the prize of returning Martian rocks to China's Tianwen-3 mission.
Amazon has asked the FCC for a two-year extension on its satellite deployment deadline, citing a rocket shortage, while Eutelsat orders 340 new OneWeb satellites and Telesat adds military Ka-band to Lightspeed as competitors carve out niches against Starlink's 10-million-subscriber lead.
The 2026 AMR Benchmark reveals a 35 percent contraction in pharmaceutical antibiotic pipelines since 2021, while the WHO publishes new target product profiles for urgently needed drugs against carbapenem-resistant bacteria, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, and drug-resistant meningitis.
Toyota debuted a 5MW electrolyzer and Hyundai launched its HTWO brand at the Tokyo H2 Expo, while Hyundai deployed South America's first hydrogen truck fleet in Uruguay.
Sony Music's disclosure that it has flagged more than 135,000 AI-generated deepfake tracks for removal exposes a widening split among streaming platforms over how to detect, label, and restrict synthetic music, with approaches ranging from voluntary self-reporting to automated detection.
February 2026 shattered all venture capital records with $189 billion deployed globally, but 83 percent of that capital flowed to just three AI companies, deepening a K-shaped market where mega-rounds surge while seed funding contracts.
Neste has commissioned a EUR 111 million facility in Finland for 150,000 tons of waste plastic per year, while UNIST researchers demonstrate PET decomposition at half the usual temperature with hydrogen co-production.
An Oxford-led study warns nearly 8,000 vertebrate species face unsuitable conditions by 2100 from combined heat and land-use stress, while a separate Nature Climate Change paper finds that protecting biodiversity hotspots would halve the land available for forestation-based carbon removal.
A $2.1 billion Navy program has drawn at least a dozen competitors to build autonomous warships, while commercial shipping firms deploy AI navigation on thousands of vessels and the IMO targets May 2026 for its first autonomous shipping code.
Seven U.S. states now enforce consumer electronics right-to-repair laws, the EPA has clarified that farmers can fix their own diesel equipment, and defense contractors blocked military repair provisions from the 2026 defense bill.
The US and Japan enacted a critical minerals action plan on March 19 featuring price floors and four joint projects as neodymium prices doubled year-to-date and a $12 billion US strategic stockpile takes shape.