Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of October 15, 2021

01. First-in-Class Nerve Agent Antidote Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier to Aid Central Nervous System 02. A rare feat: Material protects against both biological and chemical threats 03. An electrolyte design strategy for making divalent metal batteries 04. Photon-phonon breakthrough 05. Researchers develop sensitive new way of detecting transistor defects 06. Energetic ferroelectrics 07. A highly simplified way to predict quantum light-matter interactions 08. Storing data as mixtures of fluorescent dyes 09. Novel treatment technology ‘could reduce UK nuclear waste burden’ 10. Research on levitating oil droplets may help reduce air pollution And others… The discovery of red blood cells acting as […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of October 8, 2021

01. Induced flaws in quantum materials could enhance superconducting properties 02. ‘Liquid’ light shows social behaviour 03. New laser meets demanding requirements for driving cutting-edge attosecond light sources 04. New ‘risk triage’ platform pinpoints compounding threats to US infrastructure 05. New type of magnetism unveiled in an iconic material 06. Optically generated quantum fluids of light reveal exotic matter-wave states in condensed matter physics 07. Our DNA is becoming the world’s tiniest hard drive 08. Researchers reach quantum networking milestone in real-world environment 09. Skyrmion research: Braids of nanovortices discovered 10. Smuggling light through opaque materials And others… AI may […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of October 1, 2021

01. Researchers integrate optical devices made of multiple materials onto single chip 02. Scientists create material that can both move and block heat 03. Tiny lasers acting together as one: Topological vertical cavity laser arrays 04. Twisted layers of MoS2 enable the engineering of novel states of matter 05. Ultrathin quantum dot LED that can be folded freely as paper 06. Unbreakable glass inspired by seashells 07. Implementing a 46-node quantum metropolitan area network 08. A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network 09. Disrupting Exploitable Patterns in Software to Make Systems Safer 10. Flexible, stretchable battery capable of moving smoothly […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of September 24, 2021

01. Physicists make square droplets and liquid lattices 02. All-nitride superconducting qubit made on a silicon substrate 03. Fiber tracking method delivers important new insights into turbulence 04. Harnessing drones, geophysics and artificial intelligence to root out land mines 05. Melting of polar ice shifting Earth itself, not just sea levels 06. The nanophotonics orchestra presents: Twisting to the light of nanoparticles 07. New optical ‘transistor’ speeds up computation up to 1,000 times, at lowest switching energy possible 08. New quantum transmission protocol has higher data transmission rate, robustness against interference 09. Scientists develop the next generation of reservoir computing […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of September 17, 2021

01. Just by changing its shape, scientists show they can alter material properties 02. Laser loops create ultrafast electric currents in solid materials 03. Magnetic field turns handed superconductor into liquid crystal-like nematic state 04. New DNA-based chip can be programmed to solve complex math problems 05. Researchers create nanoparticle paste to make perovskite solar cells more efficient 06. Scientists Built a New Kind of Invisibility Cloak, But It’s Not For Your Eyes 07. Scientists solve mystery of icy plumes that may foretell deadly supercell storms 08. A three-qubit entangled state has been realized in a fully controllable array of […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of September 10, 2021

01. Brain-inspired memory device 02. Creating a non-radiating source of electromagnetism 03. Enhancing photoelectric efficiency 04. GaN-on-diamond semiconductor material that can take the heat – 1000 C to be exact 05. Graphene valleytronics: Paving the way to small-sized room-temperature quantum computers 06. Lead-free rare-earth-based double perovskite nanocrystals with near-infrared emission 07. Tapping into magnets to clamp down on noise in quantum information 08. Physicists engineer new property out of ‘white’ graphene 09. Researchers reveal a novel metal where electrons flow with fluid-like dynamics 10. Researchers use gold film to enhance quantum sensing with qubits in a 2D material And others… […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of September 03, 2021

01. Nanoscale systems for generating various forms of light 02. Discovery of two-phase superconductivity in CeRh2As2 03. Exploring quantum correlations of classical light source for image transmission 04. Light-induced shape shifting of MXenes 05. New family of ferroelectric materials raises possibilities for improved information and energy storage 06. Novel physics gives rise to the highest coherence for microscopic lasers 07. Physicists mix classical light with half a photon on a qubit 08. Quantum emitters: Beyond crystal clear to single-photon pure 09. Quantum networks in our future 10. Researchers develop novel analog processor for high performance computing And others… ‘Charging room’ […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of August 27, 2021

01. One material with two functions could lead to faster memory 02. An innovative process prevents irreversible energy loss in batteries 03. Laser scribed graphene for supercapacitors 04. High-rate magnesium rechargeable batteries move one step closer to realization 05. New form of carbon in a mesh tantalizes with prospects for electronics 06. New insulation material provides more efficient electricity distribution 07. A new platform for integrated photonics 08. Lightweight composite material inspects itself: Changes in color indicate deformations 09. New Exotic Magnetic Quasiparticle: “Skyrmion Bundle” Joins Topological Zoo 10. Energy harvesting technology based on ferromagnetic resonance And others… Dual-phase alloy […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of August 20, 2021

01. Engineers make critical advance in quantum computer design 02. An artificial ionic neuron for tomorrow’s electronic memories 03. A complete platform for quantum computing 04. Metasurfaces control polarized light at will 05. Nanostructure-based lasers for information and communication technologies 06. On the road to faster and more efficient data storage 07. A peculiar state of matter in layers of semiconductors 08. Scientists realize noiseless photon-echo protocol 09. ‘Shadow waveguide’ casts complex acoustic patterns to control particles 10. Woven nanotube fibers turn heat into power And others… Effectively removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere Ice formation on surfaces enhanced via […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of August 13, 2021

01. Metamaterials research challenges fundamental limits in photonics 02. New electronic phenomenon discovered 03. Non-line-of-sight imaging with picosecond temporal resolution 04. Protecting earth from space storms 05. Quantum materials cloak thermal radiation 06. Single-step synthesis of solid-state sensors for detecting explosives 07. Scientists develop chain mail fabric that can stiffen on demand 08. System trains drones to fly around obstacles at high speeds 09. 3D Kirigami Building Blocks Designed To Make Dynamic Metamaterial Structures 10. Anatomy of an earthquake series And others… Deconstructing the Infectious Biological Weaponry of the COVID-19 Virus Emergent magnetic monopoles controlled at room temperature Engineers clean […]