Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of May 31, 2019

01. New organic flow battery brings decomposing molecules back to life 02. Scientists Have Found a Way to Preserve Vaccines Without Refrigeration For Months 03. Sound waves bypass visual limitations to recognize human activity 04. Scientists create new aluminum alloy with flexibility, strength, lightness 05. Beyond 1 and 0: Engineers boost potential for creating successor to shrinking transistors 06. ‘Metasurfaces’ that manipulate light at tiny scales could find uses in consumer technology 07. US Army Approves Plans for Microwave, Laser and Hypersonic Weapons 08. China Publishes Research on Competitive 3-Nanometer Chip 09. ​​How You Walk and Hold Your Device Could […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of May 24, 2019

01. Developing biosecurity tool to detect genetically engineered organisms in the wild 02. Scientists develop polariton nano-laser operating at room temperature 03. Counter-intuitive climate change solution 04. New lidar instruments peer skyward for clues on weather and climate 05. Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces 06. Plumbene, graphene’s latest cousin, realized on the ‘nano water cube’ 07. Producing electricity at estuaries using light and osmosis 08. Researchers create washable sensor that can be woven into materials 09. UN chief concerned nuclear ‘coffin’ leaking in Pacific 10. Creating high-capacity long-life batteries And others… 12 irreplaceable innovations made possible […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of May 17, 2019

01. New method developed to detect and trace homemade bombs 02. Underwater power generation 03. Virtually energy-free superfast computing invented by scientists using light pulses 04. Locating a shooter from the first shot via cellphone 05. Silicon two-qubit gate achieves 98% fidelity 06. Lab builds autopilot software allowing UAVs to soar on thermals 07. A new sensor for light, heat and touch 08. Computing faster with quasi-particles 09. A step towards probabilistic computing (w/video) 10. Better microring sensors for optical applications And others… Assessing battery performance: Compared to what? This Chilling Simulation Shows What a Measles Outbreak Could Do to […]

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 […]