Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of July 13, 2018 

01. Qubits as valves: Controlling quantum heat engines 02. A Step Toward Quantum Repeaters 03. Trapping light using Tetris-like clusters of crystals 04. For The First Time, Scientists Achieve ‘Liquid Light’ at Room Temperature 05. Heat-conducting crystals could help computer chips keep their cool 06. A step closer to single-atom data storage 07. High-power thermoelectric generator utilizes thermal difference of only 5C 08. Manipulating single atoms with an electron beam 09. Bacteria-powered solar cell converts light to energy, even under overcast skies 10. Scientists teach the neural network to carry out video facial recognition — using a single photo And […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of July 6, 2018

01. Spectral cloaking could make objects invisible under realistic conditions 02. Controlling photons with a photon 03. Quantum-enhanced sensing of magnetic fields 04. New photodetector could improve night vision, thermal sensing and medical imaging 05. Rotating resonator creates a one-way street for light 06. Sandia light mixer generates 11 colors simultaneously 07. Magnetic skyrmions: Not the only ones of their class 08. Game changing invention to revolutionise cybersecurity 09. New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof 10. ‘Breakthrough’ algorithm exponentially faster than any previous one And others… Computational intelligence-inspired clustering in multi-access vehicular networks The culprit of some GaN defects could […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of June 29, 2018

01. Thermal camouflage disguises hot and cold 02. Spatial overlap leads to useful quantum entanglement, say physicists 03. Defense Against the Dark Arts: An overview of adversarial example security research and future research directions 04. Synthetic gene circuits for the detection, elimination and prevention of disease 05. Electrospun sodium titanate speeds up the purification of nuclear waste water 06. City-crippling ransomware, crypto hijackings, and more: our 2018 mid-year cybersecurity update 07. New carbon could signal step-change for the world’s most popular batteries 08. IBM to release world’s largest facial analytics dataset 09. Are Countries Prepared for the Increasing Threat of […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of June 22, 2018

01. Giant lasers pass new milestone towards fusion energy 02. On track to commercial extraction of uranium from seawater 03. Physicists show that is impossible to mask quantum information in correlations 04. Researchers predict materials to stabilize record-high capacity lithium-ion battery 05. Robots learn by checking in on team members (Video https://youtu.be/SVaQ8CpHjSc) 06. Scientists Have Invented a Software That Can ‘See’ Several Minutes Into The Future 07. A surprising twist on skyrmions 08. Russian scientists created ‘flying’ gas chromatograph 09. Promising new material has the right properties to capture solar energy, split water into hydrogen and oxygen 10. Silicon carbide […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of June 15, 2018

01. Multiple lasers could be replaced by a single microcomb 02. New approach to generating ultrashort laser pulses 03. New laser makes silicon ‘sing’ 04. Photonics – Getting into the groove 05. Novel transmitter protects wireless devices from hackers 06. Cooling by laser beam 07. Evidence for a new property of quantum matter revealed 08. MOF material offers selective, reversible and repeatable capture of toxic atmospheric gas 09. A nanotech sensor that turns molecular fingerprints into bar codes 10. Scientists find ordered magnetic patterns in disordered magnetic material And others… In desert trials, next-generation water harvester delivers fresh water from […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of June 08, 2018

01. Prototype nuclear battery packs 10 times more power 02. Researchers achieve almost instant magnetization of matter by light 03. The right squeeze for quantum computing 04. Time crystals may hold secret to coherence in quantum computing 05. Wood to supercapacitors 06. Aerial robot that can morph in flight 07. Building nanomaterials for next-generation computing 08. Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport 09. Novel insulators with conducting edges 10. Researchers develop electronic skins that wirelessly activate fully soft robots And others.. Better, faster, stronger: Building batteries that don’t go boom A fresh sensation in sensing technology From face […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of June 1, 2018

01. Environmental noise paradoxically preserves the coherence of a quantum system 02. Magnetic Cloak Without Superconductors 03. Antiferromagnetic materials allow for processing at terahertz speeds 04. Methodology for discovering common principles governing complex systems 05. Moisture-powered electronics 06. Switching with molecules for pioneering electro-optical devices 07. How can you tell if a quantum memory is really quantum? 08. Tunable diamond string may hold key to quantum memory 09. Scientists discover new magnetic element 10. This Has Got to Be One of The Most Beautiful And Powerful Climate Change Visuals We’ve Ever Seen And others… All Scientific Research Funded by NASA […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of May 25, 2018

01. Can a quantum drum vibrate and stand still at the same time? 02. Detecting the shape of laser pulses 03. Keep the light off: A material with improved mechanical performance in the dark 04. Entangled atoms shine in unison 05. No Motor, No Battery, No Problem 06. PNNL successfully vitrifies three gallons of radioactive tank waste 07. Self-assembling 3D battery would charge in seconds 08. Supersonic waves may help electronics beat the heat 09. Effective methods for automated design of complex technical objects and systems 10. E. coli tailored to convert plants into renewable chemicals And others… 3D-printed smart […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of May 18, 2018

01. The Big Bell Test: Global physics experiment challenges Einstein 02. Cloaking devices — it’s not just ‘Star Trek’ anymore 03. Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go quantum 04. Learning to See in the Dark 05. Deeper understanding of quantum chaos may be the key to quantum computers 06. Microwaved plastic increases lithium-sulfur battery lifespan 07. Shedding light on a cyclic molecule with a twist 08. The Unhackable Envelope 09. Artificial intelligence needs to be socially responsible, says new policy report 10. Nationwide program launches to train new generation of quantum engineers And others… […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of May 11, 2018

01. A microscopic roundabout for light—team develops a magnet-free optical circulator 02. Picking one photon out of the flow 03. Water-based battery stores solar and wind energy 04. Time Crystals Multiply 05. Dielectric metamaterial is dynamically tuned by light 06. Computing: Design for magnetoelectric device may improve memory 07. Engineers invent smart microchip that can self-start and operate when battery runs out 08. Motorizing fibres with geometric zero-energy modes 09. Making new layered superconductors using high entropy alloys 10. The apparent inner calm of quantum materials And others… Best of arXiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – April […]