01. Breakthrough in controlling light transmission 02. Worm ‘uploaded’ to computer and taught amazing tricks 03. Light controls two-atom quantum computation 04. Taking terahertz data links around the bend 05. Researchers help robots think and plan in the abstract 06. Using technology to detect hidden threats 07. The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t) 08. Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things 09. Cyberwarfare is taking to the skies, aboard drones 10. What causes ionic wind?
Category Archives: Weekly Top 10
Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of 02/09/2018
01. Speed of light drops to zero at ‘exceptional points’ 02. Compound could transform energy storage for large grids 03. Researchers demonstrate graphene as a source of high-speed light pulses 04. Innovative diode design uses ultrafast quantum tunneling to harvest infrared energy from the environment 05. A fast-evolving new botnet could take gadgets in your home to the dark side 06. Clemson researchers blaze new ground in wireless energy generation 07. Vanadium dioxyde: A revolutionary material for tomorrow’s electronics 08. Controlling quantum interactions in a single material 09. Certain bacteria produce tiny gold nuggets by digesting toxic metals 10. The […]
Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of 02/02/2018
01. Antiferromagnets prove their potential for spin-based information technology 02. DARPA Seeks to Improve Military Communications with Digital Phased-Arrays at Millimeter Wave 03. Scientists realize strong indirect coupling in distant graphene-based nanomechanical resonators 04. Artificial intelligence is the weapon of the next Cold War 05. A Beam-Steering Antenna for 5G Mobile Phones 06. Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial Intelligence 07. Biomining the elements of the future 08. What your face says about your heartbeat 09. A ski jacket that actively gets rid of sweat 10. SynBioHub: A Standards-Enabled Design Repository for Synthetic Biology
Top 10 Science and Technology Innovations for the Week of 1/26/2018
01. Engineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware 02. Researchers use sound waves to advance optical communication 03. Scientists create high-speed coding system 04. Engineers invent tiny vision processing chip for ultra-small smart vision systems and IoT applications 05. Synthesis of Horsepox Virus: Implications for Biosecurity and Recommendations for Preventing the Reemergence of Smallpox 06. Inverse-design approach leads to metadevices 07. Magnetosensitive e-skin senses objects without touching (w/video) 08. Forget viruses or spyware—your biggest cyberthreat is greedy currency miners 09. Making Data Simple: What’s next in the world of data & analytics with Seth Dobrin (Podcast – part 1) 10. […]
Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of January 20, 2018
01. Developing a secure, un-hackable net 02. Pulses of light to encrypt data and protect security of cryptocurrencies 03. Light may unlock a new quantum dance for electrons in graphene 04. New exotic phenomena seen in photonic crystals 05. High-temperature superconductivity gets agile (w/video) 06. Surprising discovery could lead to better batteries 07. Making the internet of things possible with a new breed of ‘memristors’ 08. Engineers reinvent the inductor after two centuries 09. New center to develop next-generation computing technologies 10. What sort of stream networks do scientific ideas flow along?
Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of January 13, 2018
01. Researchers design dendrite-free lithium battery 02. A biological solution to carbon capture and recycling? 03. Researchers demonstrate the existence of a new kind of magnetoresistance involving topological insulators 04. What’s the noise eating quantum bits? 05. Scientists develop ultrafast battery with quarter-million cycle life 06. A major step forward in organic electronics 07. Leaving flatland – quantum Hall physics in 4-D 08. How the Meltdown Vulnerability Fix Was Invented 09. Beijing Is Getting a $2.1 Billion AI District 10. FAU to develop novel real-time undersea wireless communications and surveillance technology
Top 10 Science & Technology Innovations for the Week of January 5, 2018
Every week, we bring you the top ten stories in science and technology. Here are the top stories this week: 1. Innovative transistors based on magnetically induced movement of ions 2. Atomically thin perovskites boost for future electronics 3. Exploring electrolysis for energy storage 4. Thermoelectric power generation at room temperature: Coming soon? 5. Special Report: Top Tech 2018 6. Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal 7. Six Cyber Threats to Really Worry About in 2018 8. Carbon nanotube as ultrafast emitter with narrow energy spread at optical frequency 9. Sensor the size of a nitrogen atom investigates hard drives 10. […]
Top 10 Science & Technology Innovations for the Week of December 15, 2017
Ocean of Things Aims to Expand Maritime Awareness across Open Seas A transistor of graphene nanoribbons Researchers make solid ground toward better lithium-ion battery interfaces ‘Magnetoelectric’ material shows promise as memory for electronics Single-photon detector can count to 4 Quantum simulators wield control over more than 50 qubits, setting new record Teaching life a new trick: Bacteria make boron-carbon bonds Fully screen-printed monoPoly silicon solar cell technology Creating surfaces that repel water and control its flow Images of 2017 in physics