01. ‘Super jelly’ can survive being run over by a car (with Video) 02. By keeping ferroelectric ‘bubbles’ intact, researchers pave way for new devices 03. Doing photon upconversion a solid – Crystals that convert light to more useful wavelengths 04. An exploration of tipping in complex systems 05. How sugar-loving microbes could help power future cars 06. Iodine successfully tested in satellite ion thrusters 07. Magnetic symmetry is not just like looking in a mirror (w/video) 08. New device modulates visible light—without dimming it—with the smallest footprint and lowest power consumption 09. New ultrahard diamond glass synthesized 10. Researchers […]
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Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of November 19, 2021
01. A nanoantenna for long-distance, ultra-secure communication 02. New holographic camera sees the unseen with high precision 03. New material could be two superconductors in one 04. Tiny chip provides a big boost in precision optics 05. Ultra-thin film of magnetite optimized for spintronics 06. Ultrafast charging of batteries using fully new anode material 07. Exploding and weeping ceramics provide path to new shape-shifting material 08. Magnetene: Graphene-like 2D material leverages quantum effects to achieve ultra-low friction 09. Molecular snakes become ladders – potential building blocks for electronics 10. Chemists discover new way to harness energy from ammonia And others… […]
Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of November 12, 2021
01. Electron family creates previously unknown state of matter 02. Ultra-thin crystals as light sources in lasers 03. New phonon-based and magneto-tunable monochromatic terahertz source 04. Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wireless 05. These Engineers May Have Come Up With The Perfect Material For Unbreakable Screens 06. The hidden behavior of supercapacitor materials 07. How a novel radio frequency control system enhances quantum computers 08. Key witness helps scientists detect ‘spooky’ quantum entanglement in solid materials 09. Weather balloon data shows troposphere getting thicker, pushing tropopause higher over past 40 years 10. In Science magazine, scholars call for […]
Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of November 5, 2021
01. Creating an artificial material that can sense, adapt to its environment 02. This device could usher in GPS-free navigation 03. Diffractive optical networks reconstruct holograms instantaneously without a digital computer 04. Engineers invent ultra-fast manufacturing technology 05. A new dimension in magnetism and superconductivity launched 06. A proactive approach to removing space junk 07. Researchers develop a tool to neutralize chemical weapons using rare-earth elements 08. Towards straintronics: Guiding excitons in 2D materials 09. Trapping spins with sound 10. Towards self-restoring electronic devices with long DNA molecules And others… Better hurricane forecasts from use of infrared satellite measurements of […]
Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of October 29, 2021
01. Controlling light with a material three atoms thick 02. Electrical control over designer quantum materials 03. Engineers develop flexible, self-healing material to protect steel from the elements 04. Nature’s strongest glue now works in both wet and salty environments 05. New chiral nanostructures to extend the material platform 06. On-water creation of conducting MOF nanosheets 07. Researchers develop broadband spintronic-metasurface terahertz emitters with tunable chirality 08. Researchers discover new way to generate light through use of pre-existing defects in semiconductor materials 09. Shape-shifting materials with infinite possibilities 10. Stronger than spider silk: Bagworm silk enables strong conducting fibers And […]
Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of October 22, 2021
01. Intelligent optical chip to improve telecommunications 02. Making progress towards quantum technologies based on magnetic molecules 03. Molecular interfaces for innovative sensors and data storage devices 04. New metalens focuses light with ultra-deep holes 05. Quantum material to boost terahertz frequencies 06. Scientists develop novel ‘shapeshifting’ liquid crystal 07. Tuning transparency and opacity 08. Ultrafast control of quantum materials 09. Ultrafast magnetism: Heating magnets, freezing time 10. Ultrafast optical switching can save overwhelmed datacenters And others… Artificial networks learn to smell like the brain Cooling radio waves to their quantum ground state Unmasking the magic of superconductivity in twisted […]
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 […]