Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of December 18, 2020 Posted on by Hema Viswanath 01. Physics breakthrough of the year 02. Physics discovery leads to ballistic optical materials 03. Quantum insulators create multilane highways for electrons 04. Researchers create entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible 05. Toward imperceptible electronics that you cannot see or feel 06. Ultra-thin designer materials unlock quantum phenomena 07. UMBC team reveals possibilities of new one-atom-thick materials 08. Bacterial nanopores open the future of data storage 09. High-brightness source of coherent light spanning from the UV to THz 10. World’s First Successful Transmission of 1 Petabit per Second Using a Single-core Multimode Optical Fiber And others… Acoustic plasmons found in hole-doped cuprate superconductors Change in global precipitation patterns as a result of climate change High-tech fixes for the food system could have unintended consequences An LED that can be integrated directly into computer chips Wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive Posted in S&T articles, Weekly Top 10 and tagged Top S&T innovations.