Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of April 15, 2022

01. Scientists find ‘knob’ to control magnetic behavior in quantum material 02. Converting solar energy to electricity on demand 03. A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine 04. In race to build quantum computing hardware, silicon begins to shine 05. Discovery of matter-wave polaritons sheds new light on photonic quantum technologies 06. Intense laser light modifies the pairing of electrons 07. Light-powered microbes are super-producing chemical factories 08. Achieving higher performance with potassium ion battery 09. Quantum teleportation: The express lane for quantum data traffic 10. Researchers create a magnet made of […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of April 8, 2022

01. Converting body heat into electricity: A step closer towards high-performance organic thermoelectrics 02. ‘Freeze-thaw battery’ is adept at preserving its energy 03. Making a ‘sandwich’ out of magnets and topological insulators, potential for lossless electronics 04. Nanomaterials: Light dependent atom clusters for sensing applications 05. Nano particle trapped between mirrors works as a quantum sensor 06. NASA uses moonlight to improve satellite accuracy 07. New quantum dots for quantum networks 08. New study solves mystery of how soft liquid droplets erode hard surfaces 09. Pollen paper that you can print on and ‘unprint’ 10. Quantum ‘shock absorbers’ allow perovskite […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of April 01, 2022

01. Carbon-coated nickel enables fuel cell free of precious metals 02. Decoding a material’s ‘memory’ 03. Development of stretchable and printable free-form lithium-ion batteries 04. DNA computer using glass beads increases parallel processing power 05. Engineering the quantum states in solids using light 06. Heat storage: Scientists develop material that is stable, efficient, and eco-friendly 07. Printing circuits on rare nanomagnets puts a new spin on computing 08. Study shows how superconductivity can be switched on and off in superconductors 09. Team achieves 30-fold enhancement of thermoelectric performance in polycrystalline tin selenide 10. Water as a ‘glue’ for elasticity enhanced, […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 25, 2022

01. Light derails electrons through graphene (w/video) 02. Novel quantum sensing possibilities with nonlinear optics of diamonds 03. Photonic encryption platform in the ultraviolet and visible 04. Physicists create compressible optical quantum gas 05. Qubits: Developing long-distance quantum telecommunications networks 06. Researchers develop silicon cuboid nanoantenna 07. Researchers develop the world’s first power-free frequency tuner using nanomaterials 08. Single-photon source paves the way for practical quantum encryption 09. A stretchy display for shapable electronics 10. Ultra-compact integrated photonic device could lead to new optical technologies And others… Blow flies can be used to detect use of chemical weapons, other pollutants […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 18, 2022

01. Hoverfly brains mapped to detect the sound of distant drones 02. Blowin’ in the wind – tiny battery-free sensor devices float like dandelion seeds (w/video) 03. Extracting mechanical work from superfast-expanding hydrogels 04. High-Energy Interactions Between Light and Matter Described by Advanced New Mathematical Model 05. Magnetism helps electrons vanish in high-temp superconductors 06. Quantum information: Light from rare-earth molecules 07. Researchers Set Record by Preserving Quantum States in Silicon Carbide for More Than Five Seconds 08. Revealing thermal runaway routes in lithium-sulfur batteries 09. ‘Self-driving’ lab speeds up research, synthesis of energy materials 10. Simpler graphene method paves […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 11, 2022

01. Breakthrough in quantum sensing provides new material to make qubits 02. Exploring the bounds of room-temperature superconductivity 03. ‘Fingerprint’ machine learning technique identifies different bacteria in seconds 04. Form-free metasurfaces enable novel and intelligent optical illusion 05. The future of data storage is double-helical, research indicates 06. Physicists show how frequencies can easily be multiplied without special circuitry 07. Researchers design charged ‘power suits’ for electric vehicles and spacecraft 08. Robot ‘bugs’ that can go just about anywhere 09. Study raises new possibilities for triggering room-temperature superconductivity with light 10. Vacuum fluctuations break topological protection And others… Analysis suggests […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 4, 2022

01. Arrays of metallic nanoparticles can form an optical cavity tunable by liquid crystals 02. First observation of the quantum boomerang effect 03. Freshwater from thin air 04. How to make a ‘computer’ out of liquid crystals 05. Lightweight nanofiber mats could battle bullets, deflect space debris 06. Live wire: New research on nanoelectronics 07. Metasurface-based antenna turns ambient radio waves into electric power 08. Strong, stretchy, self-healing polymers rapidly recover from damage 09. Surprising semiconductor properties revealed with innovative new method 10. Using two different elements creates new possibilities in hybrid atomic quantum computers And others… This 500-Year-Old Landslide […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February 25, 2022

01. A new platform for customizable quantum devices 02. Evidence for exotic magnetic phase of matter 03. New material offers remarkable combo of toughness and stretchiness 04. Physicists harness electrons to make ‘synthetic dimensions’ 05. Scientists greatly expand the frequencies generated by a miniature optical ruler 06. Mechanical metamaterials: Toughness and design criteria 07. Microparticles show ability to turn in reverse, paving the way for microfluidic devices 08. Self-healing materials for robotics made from ‘jelly’ and salt 09. Wallet-sized device focuses terahertz energy to generate high-resolution images 10. World’s smallest battery can power dust-sized computer And others… How Pathogens Learn […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February 18, 2022

01. Chaining atoms together yields quantum storage 02. An innovative technology for 6G communication networks 03. It’s in the air – battery discovery takes up the charge 04. Researchers combine piezoelectric thin film and metasurfaces to create lens with tunable focus 05. Researchers use solar cells to achieve fast underwater wireless communication 06. Researchers create molecule that can pave way for mini transistors 07. Two-dimensional material could store quantum information at room temperature 08. Researchers identify mechanism by which fatigue cracks grow 09. Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination 10. Squeezing the noise out of microscopes with quantum […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February, 11, 2022

01. Carbon nanotube films open up new prospects for electronics 02. Cooling matter from a distance 03. Nanowires under tension create the basis for ultrafast transistors 04. Scientists discover a mysterious transition in an electronic crystal 05. Scientists engineer new material that can absorb and release enormous amounts of energy 06. Study raises new possibilities for triggering room-temperature superconductivity with light 07. Super-elastic high-entropy Elinvar alloy discovered with potential for aerospace engineering 08. Tiny electrical vortexes bridge gap between ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials 09. Towards self-sensing soft robots with electrochemically driven pumps 10. With a little help, new optical material […]