Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of May 10, 2019

01. Physicists propose perfect material for lasers 02. Flexible, transparent monolayer graphene device for power generation and storage 03. Sculpting super-fast light pulses 04. Researchers take a step towards light-based, brain-like computing chip 05. Air Force Research Laboratory completes successful shoot down of air-launched missiles 06. Machine learning paves the way for next-level quantum sensing 07. Promising material could lead to faster, cheaper computer memory 08. Mimicking squid skin to improve thermoregulating blankets 09. Move over, silicon switches: There’s a new way to compute 10. Novel thermoelectric nanoantenna design for use in solar energy harvesting And others… America may outsmart […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of April 26, 2019

01. Catalyst renders nerve agents harmless 02. Cornell Engineers Create a Robotic Material That Displays 3 of The Key Traits For Life 03. Breakthrough research to revolutionise internet communication 04. Study opens a new route to achieving invisibility without using metamaterials 05. Tiny, fast, accurate technology on the radar 06. New way to improve cybersecurity 07. Bioengineers program cells as digital signal processors 08. Creating a cloak for grid data in the cloud 09. Printing self-powered sensor systems on plastic 10. Biosensor ‘bandage’ collects and analyzes sweat And others… Earth’s North Magnetic Pole Is Moving Fast, And We Might Finally […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of April 19, 2019

01. Ultrafast Cluster Electronics 02. SLAC develops novel compact antenna for communicating where radios fail 03. Bionics: Electric view in murky waters 04. A novel data-compression technique for faster computer programs 05. The cost of computation 06. Graphene coating could help prevent lithium battery fires 07. Printable nanogenerator creates electricity from snowfall 08. Heads in the cloud: Scientists predict internet of thoughts ‘within decades’ 09. Newly devised static negative capacitor could improve computing 10. Biosensor Could Scale New Sensitivity Heights And others… A New ‘State’ of Matter Can Be Solid And Liquid at The Same Time Observing a molecule stretch […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of April 12, 2019

01. Engineers develop novel techniques to trick object detection systems 02. High-capacity transmission over multi-core fiber link with 19-core optical amplifier 03. Researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backward 04. Skyrmions could provide next generation data storage 05. A new type of airplane wing that adapts midflight could change air travel 06. Copper-based alternative for next-generation electronics 07. Toward novel computing and fraud detection technologies with on-demand polymers 08. The Transpolar Drift is faltering: Sea ice is now melting before it can leave the nursery 09. Low-bandwidth radar technology provides improved detection of objects 10. Mystery […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of April 5, 2019

01. A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations 02. Tiny optical elements could one day replace traditional refractive lenses 03. Ferromagnetic nanoparticle systems show promise for ultrahigh-speed spintronics 04. A direct current (DC) remote cloak to hide arbitrary objects 05. Engineering for high-speed devices 06. Researchers find that the sun’s magnetic field is ten times stronger than previously believed 07. How to ice-proof the next generation of aircraft 08. A billion people will be newly exposed to diseases like dengue fever as world temperatures rise 09. ‘Biological bandage’ could help heal wounds 10. DARPA Seeks to Make Scalable On-Chip […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 29, 2019

01. Computer program developed to find ‘leakage’ in quantum computers 02. Engineers demonstrate metamaterials that can solve equations 03. In a new quantum simulator, light behaves like a magnet 04. Materials could delay frost up to 300 times longer than existing anti-icing coatings 05. Supercrystal: A hidden phase of matter created by a burst of light 06. The taming of the light screw 07. Radioactive material detected remotely using laser-induced electron avalanche breakdown 08. One transistor for all purposes 09. The best topological conductor yet: Spiraling crystal is the key to exotic discovery 10. Growing Drone Industry Spawns a Growing […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 22, 2019

01. Recovering scattered data from twisted light via ‘scattering-matrix-assisted retrieval technique (SMART)’ 02. Research paves the way for next generation of optical tweezers 03. Device that ‘shakes’ light a breakthrough In photonics 04. Designing next-generation optical antennas 05. Long-distance quantum information exchange—success at the nanoscale 06. Finding the right ‘dose’ for solar geoengineering 07. Critical materials: Researchers eye huge supply of rare-earth elements from mining waste 08. Turning an organic molecule into a coherent two-level quantum system 09. Nanocrystal ‘factory’ could revolutionize quantum dot manufacturing 10. Nanocoating makes lightweight metal foams bone-hard and explosion-proof And others… Army looks to put […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 15, 2019

01. Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading 02. Unlocking the untapped potential of light in optical communications 03. An AI for generating fake news could also help detect it 04. Future Communication Satellite 05. ‘Meta-mirror’ reflects sound waves in any direction 06. Researchers develop ‘acoustic metamaterial’ that cancels sound 07. Combs of light for molecules 08. Your body is your internet — and now it can’t be hacked 09. Listening to quantum radio 10. Efficiency boost for robot submarines And others… Autonomous drones can help search and rescue after disasters Capturing bacteria that eat and breathe […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 8, 2019

01. New shapes of laser beam ‘sneak’ through opaque media 02. Physicists train the oscillatory neural network to recognize images 03. Concept of the laser can be reversed 04. Data transfer by controlled noise 05. Light pulses provide a new route to enhance superconductivity 06. Magnonic devices can replace electronics without much noise 07. Researchers create a ‘universal entangler’ for new quantum tech 08. One device, many frequencies: Researchers create a unique, tiny resonator 09. A New Layer of Medical Preparedness to Combat Emerging Infectious Disease 10. Toward Nanoparticle “Night-Vision Goggles” And others… Assembly in the air: Using sound to […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 01, 2019

01. New program picks out targets in a crowd quickly and efficiently 02. Machines whisper our secrets 03. X-rays might be a better way to communicate in space 04. Signals from distant lightning could help secure electric substations 05. Magnetization reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field 06. Chilling New Research Shows How Dire a Smallpox Bioterror Attack Could 07. Entangling photons of different colors 08. Predicting the monsoon a year ahead 09. Causal disentanglement is the next frontier in AI 10. Superintelligence as a Service is Coming and It Can Be Safe AGI And others… Best […]