Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 26, 2021

01. Detecting photons transporting qubits without destroying quantum information 02. Big breakthrough for ‘massless’ energy storage 03. A material that is superconductive at room temperature and lower pressure 04. Optical fiber could boost power of superconducting quantum computers 05. Researchers’ algorithm designs soft robots that sense 06. Scientists observe complex tunable magnetism in a topological material 07. Toward perdurable flexible electronics 08. Tunable smart materials 09. Wafer-thin nanopaper changes from firm to soft at the touch of a button 10. Catching electrons in action in an antiferromagnetic nanowire And others… Aerosol formation in clouds The blast that shook the ionosphere […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 19, 2021

01. When memory qubits and photons get entangled 02. Team creates new ultralightweight, crush-resistant tensegrity metamaterials 03. Controlled by light alone, new smart materials twist, bend and move 04. Millimeter wave photonics with terahertz semiconductor lasers 05. Rare open-access quantum computer now operational 06. Remote control for quantum emitters 07. Researchers develop first self-cooling laser made with a silica fiber 08. Researchers make breakthrough in solar cell materials 09. Scientists develop new approach to predict how liquids freeze 10. Study predicts the oceans will start emitting ozone-depleting CFCs And others… Army working on new cyber, electromagnetic weapons after large-scale test […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 12, 2021

01. Researchers virtually open and read sealed historic letters 02. Army Trains AI to Identify Faces in the Dark 03. Innovative flat optics will usher the next technological revolution 04. New quantum theory heats up thermodynamic research 05. New research could boost a solar-powered fuel made by splitting water 06. Twistoptics: A new way to control optical nonlinearity 07. Scientists have synthesized a new high-temperature superconductor 08. Scientists propose novel self-modulation scheme in seeded free-electron lasers 09. Linear systems are the workhorse of modern computation 10. Reemergence of Human Monkeypox and Declining Population Immunity in the Context of Urbanization, Nigeria, […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 5, 2021

01. Pushing computing to the edge by rethinking microchips’ design 02. A quantum internet is closer to reality, thanks to this switch 03. Researchers introduce a new generation of tiny, agile drones 04. Adapting solar energy technology to detect chemical warfare agents and pesticides 05. Heat-free optical switch would enable optical quantum computing chips 06. Intriguing particles emerge when two photons couple 07. Magnetic whirls in confined spaces 08. Automated next generation sequencing platform can accurately screen thousands for COVID-19 09. Chemists develop a new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire 10. Engineering the boundary between 2D and […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February 26, 2021

01. Magnetic effect without a magnet 02. Molecular bridges power up printed electronics 03. Nanofibers for quantum technologies at room temperature 04. New phenomena for the design of future quantum devices 05. Coding for Qubits: How to Program in Quantum Computer Assembly Language 06. Colloidal quantum dot lasers poised to come of age 07. Concept for a new storage medium 08. Quantum systems learn joint computing 09. A speed limit also applies in the quantum world 10. An intelligent soft material that curls under pressure or expands when stretched And others… Ebola Strikes West Africa Again: Key Questions and Lessons […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February 19, 2021

01. Blueprint for fault-tolerant qubits 02. Light used to detect quantum information stored in 100,000 nuclear quantum bits 03. Graphene “nano-origami” creates tiniest microchips yet 04. Harnessing socially-distant molecular interactions for future computing 05. International study reveals exceptional property of next generation optical fibers 06. Quantum Theory May Twist Cause And Effect Into Loops, With Effect Causing The Cause 07. Breakthrough material can protect satellites from ultraviolet radiation and atomic oxygen in low-Earth orbit 08. Scientists manipulate magnets at the atomic scale 09. A performance leap for graphene modulators in next generation datacom and telecom 10. This robot doesn’t need […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February 12, 2021

01. Scientists create armor for fragile quantum technology 02. Silicon waveguides move us closer to faster, light-based logic circuits 03. UMass Amherst team helps demonstrate spontaneous quantum error correction 04. ‘Multiplying’ light could be key to ultra-powerful optical computers 05. Capturing Free-Space Optical Light for High-Speed WiFi 06. Inductance based on a quantum effect has the potential to miniaturize inductors 07. ‘Magnetic graphene’ forms a new kind of magnetism 08. New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares 09. Quantum effects help minimize communication flaws 10. Quantum systems learn joint computing And others… 21 per cent of […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February 5, 2021

01. Quantum tunneling in graphene advances the age of terahertz wireless communications 02. Researchers create origami-inspired satellite antennas that can self-fold 03. Researchers create novel photonic chip 04. Researchers demonstrate the potential of a new quantum material for creating two spintronic technologies 05. Researchers design next-generation photodetector 06. Researchers from NUS create ‘whirling’ nano-structures in anti-ferromagnets 07. Terahertz accelerates beyond 5G towards 6G 08. Batteries that can be assembled in ambient air 09. Direct coherent multi-ink printing of fabric supercapacitors 10. Experts ‘scan horizon’ to help prepare governments for next major biosecurity threat And others… AI Predicts Asymptomatic Carriers of […]

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

01. Optimal information about the invisible 02. Adding or subtracting single quanta of sound 03. “Liquid” machine-learning system adapts to changing conditions 04. Long-distance and secure quantum key distribution (QKD) over a free-space channel 05. Record-breaking laser link could help us test whether Einstein was right 06. Researchers achieve extreme-ultraviolet spectral compression by four-wave mixing 07. Researchers construct molecular nanofibers that are stronger than steel 08. Defects may help scientists understand the exotic physics of topology 09. Rapid Identification of Ricin in Serum Samples Using LC–MS/MS 10. Solar material can ‘self-heal’ imperfections, new research shows And others… Audio long-read: Push, […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of January 22, 2021

01. Using drones to create local quantum networks 02. New metamaterial offers reprogrammable properties 03. Designing customized “brains” for robots 04. DNA origami enables fabricating superconducting nanowires 05. The long-range transport of deconfined magnetic hedgehogs 06. Storing information with light 07. Using graphene, researchers increase optical data transmission speed by a factor of at least 10,000. 08. Experimental evidence of an intermediate state of matter between a crystal and a liquid 09. A display that completely blocks off counterfeits 10. A New Institutional Approach to Research Security in the United States And others… DARPA Opens Door to Producing “Unimaginable” Designs […]