Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of  April 14, 2023

01. New textile unravels warmth-trapping secrets of polar bear fur 02. Hydrogel-based flexible electronics 03. This Incredible Tiny Robot Can Locate And Capture Individual Cells 04, The Key to Securing Legacy Computing Systems 05. Merons and antimerons 06. A new type of photonic time crystal gives light a boost 07. Physicists Have Successfully Generated Tiny Solar Flares In The Lab 08. Robots predict human intention for faster builds 09. Tiny biobattery with potential 100-year shelf life runs on bacteria 10. Tiny movements, deep inside a battery And others Cell imaging could provide next step for developing synthetic photosynthesis Lake water […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of April 7, 2023

01. Absolute zero in the quantum computer: Formulation for the third law of thermodynamics 02. Can a solid be a superfluid? Engineering a novel supersolid state from layered 2D materials 03. Connecting distant silicon qubits for scaling up quantum computers 04. Imaging technique reveals electronic charges with single-atom resolution 05. “Spatial computing” enables flexible working memory 06. The modulation of a single-molecule electron source using light 07. Using quantum fluctuations to generate random numbers faster 08. Researchers develop novel nonwovens that are electrically conductive but thermally insulating 09. Revolutionary battery technology to boost EV range 10-fold or more 10. Scientists […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 31, 2023

01. Carbon fiber paper for longer-lasting electric vehicle batteries 02. Improved chip-scale color conversion lasers could enable many next-generation quantum devices 03. Listen up, material! 04. New additives could turn concrete into an effective carbon sink 05. New experiment translates quantum information between technologies in an important step for the quantum internet 06. New microchip links two Nobel Prize-winning techniques 07. Optical switching at record speeds opens door for ultrafast, light-based electronics and computers 08. Photosynthesis ‘hack’ could lead to new ways of generating renewable energy 09. Storing information with spins: Creating new structured spin states with spatially structured polarized […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 24, 2023

01. Detecting manipulations in microchips 02. MIT physicists predict exotic new phenomena and give “recipe” for realizing them 03. New approach to harvesting aerial humidity with organic crystals 04. Qubits put new spin on magnetism: Boosting applications of quantum computers 05. Research team develops multifunctional vortex beam for UV-visible spectra 06. A scalable and programmable quantum phononic processor based on trapped ions 07. Scientists develop energy-saving, tunable meta-devices for high-precision, secure 6G communications 08. Scientists open door to manipulating ‘quantum light’ 09. Scientists use lasers to recreate ‘twisted’ superconducting material 10. Shaping with light – a novel method for crafting […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 17, 2023

01. Breakthrough discovery in materials science challenges current understanding of photoemission 02. Closing in on next-generation atom-thick photonic devices 03. Experiment unlocks bizarre properties of strange metals 04. Magnetism fosters unusual electronic order in quantum material 05. Novel tunable 2D nanosheets enable many semiconductor applications, ranging from electronics to photocatalysis 06. Shape memory achieved for nano-sized objects 07. Researchers develop soft robot that shifts from land to sea with ease 08. Researchers develop ultraefficient white light laser on a chip 09. Resilient bug-sized robots keep flying even after wing damage 10. Scientists demonstrate time reflection of electromagnetic waves And others […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 10, 2023

01. 3D battery imaging reveals the secret real-time life of lithium metal cells 02. Bending 2D nanomaterial could ‘switch on’ future technologies 03. Graphene quantum dots show promise as novel magnetic field sensors 04. Imaging through random media using coherent averaging 05. Scientists push the boundaries of manipulating light at the submicroscopic level 06. New method enables effective free-space optical communication regardless of weather 07. New ‘phase shifter’ technology will reduce signal loss in antenna systems 08. Reaching superconductivity layer by layer 09. Researchers fabricate novel flexible supercapacitors on paper 10. Scientists thread rows of metal atoms into nanofiber bundles […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of March 3, 2023

01. ‘Ghostly’ Glow of Entangled Light Now Reveals Hidden Objects Better Than Ever 02. Wafer-scale nanofabrication of telecom single-photon emitters in silicon 03. New design for lithium-air battery could offer much longer driving range compared with the lithium-ion battery 04. New method creates material that could create the next generation of solar cells 05. Producing extreme ultraviolet laser pulses efficiently through wakesurfing behind electron beams 06. The quantum twisting microscope: A new lens on quantum materials 07. Scientists identify new mechanism of corrosion 08. Chaos on the nanometer scale 09. Scientists twist x-rays with artificial spin crystals 10. Towards a […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February 24, 2023

01. Designing advanced ‘BTS’ materials for temperature and long-wave infrared sensing 02. How a record-breaking copper catalyst converts carbon dioxide into liquid fuels 03. U.S. unprepared for dangers posed by zoonotic diseases, new analysis concludes 04. Improving the performance of satellites in low Earth orbit 05. Nanoparticles self-assemble to harvest solar energy 06. New corrosion protection that repairs itself 07. Reactive fabrics respond to changes in temperature 08. Smooth sailing for electrons in graphene: Measuring fluid-like flow at nanometer resolution 09. Solid-state thermal transistor demonstrated 10. The switch – analogous to a transistor – made from a single fullerene molecule […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of February 17, 2023

01. Atom-thin walls could smash size, memory barriers in next-gen devices 02. A counterintuitive way to make stronger alloys 03. Elusive transition shows universal quantum signatures 04. The ‘flip-flop’ qubit: Realization of a new quantum bit in silicon controlled by electric signals 05. How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater 06. A liquid laser that is robust in air and tunable by wind 07. Mechanical engineering meets electromagnetics to enable future technology 08. New photodiode with extremely low excess noise for optical communication and long-range LIDAR 09. Researchers find thermal limits of advanced nanomaterials 10. Researchers realize complete family […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the week of February 10, 2023

Distortion-free structured light Entangled atoms cross quantum network from one lab to another The first lab-created ‘quantum abacus’ New crystal growth orientation method manipulates properties of materials New ice is like a snapshot of liquid water New sodium, aluminum battery aims to integrate renewables for grid resiliency Researchers devise a new path toward ‘quantum light’ A quasiparticle that can transfer heat under electrical control Scientists open new window on the physics of glass formation Scientists realize faster method for quantum key distribution And others Ice cores show even dormant volcanoes leak abundant sulfur into the atmosphere Major publishers are banning […]