Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of August 26, 2022

01. New stable quantum batteries can reliably store energy into electromagnetic fields 02. Antiferromagnetic hybrids achieve important functionality for spintronic applications 03. Damage-reporting and self-healing skin-like polymeric coatings 04. Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic ‘skin’ 05. Exploring quantum electron highways with laser light 06. Harvesting energy – drop by drop 07. Novel smart material enables high-performance and reliable light control of droplets 08. A quantum pump without a crank 09. Researchers discover a material that can learn like the brain 10. Scientists identify liquid-like atoms in densely packed solid glasses And others… Lack of grants from funding agencies biggest […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of August 19, 2022

01. Scientists Achieved Self-Sustaining Nuclear Fusion… But Now They Can’t Replicate It 02. Researchers invent self-charging, ultra-thin device that generates electricity from air moisture 03. Floating ‘artificial leaves’ ride the wave of clean fuel production 04. New faster charging hydrogen fuel cell developed 05. A new neuromorphic chip for AI on the edge, at a small fraction of the energy and size of today’s compute platforms 06. Tiny crystal vases 07. 2D boundaries could create electricity 08. This Artificial Synapse Can Run a Million Times Faster Than Ones in The Human Brain 09. DARPA Kicks Off Program to Develop Low-Earth […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of August 12, 2022

01. Human-machine interfaces work underwater, generate their own power 02. Microbatteries much smaller than a grain of rice for a smart dust future 03. New chip-based beam steering device lays groundwork for smaller, cheaper lidar 04. Protective coating material self-heals in 30 minutes when exposed to sunlight 05. New technology can help combat climate crisis 06. Record-Breaking Experiment Could Solve a Huge Challenge in Quantum Computing 07. Researcher is studying materials whose traits resemble those of the human brain 08. Researchers create the first artificial vision system for both land and water 09. A simple, cheap material for carbon capture, […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of August 5, 2022

01. Acoustics researchers develop novel underwater carpet cloak 02. Affordable and sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries proposed 03. An AI Just Independently Discovered Alternate Physics 04. Balloon fleet senses earthquakes from stratosphere 05. Cloud study demystifies impact of aerosols 06. A molecule of light and matter 07. Nanoparticles increase light scattering, boost solar cell performance 08. Neural networks and ‘ghost’ electrons accurately reconstruct behavior of quantum systems 09. New optical switch could lead to ultrafast all-optical signal processing 10. Smart chip senses, stores, computes and secures data in one low-power platform And others… A paper battery with water switch Researchers […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of July 29, 2022

01. Artificial skin sweats on command 02. At the water’s edge: Self-assembling 2D materials at a liquid-liquid interface 03. Bioinspired protein creates stretchable 2D layered materials 04. First electric nanomotor made from DNA material 05. New glass-ceramic emits light when under mechanical stress 06. New imaging method reveals concealed objects 07. New method can improve explosion detection 08. Researchers 3D print sensors for satellites 09. Researchers develop nanoporous zinc electrodes that make primary alkaline zinc batteries rechargeable 10. Scientists capture first-ever view of a hidden quantum phase in a 2D crystal And others… The peer review system is broken. We […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of July 22, 2022

01. Researchers present anti-reflective coating that blocks waves of many types 02. Researchers explore a hydrodynamic semiconductor where electrons flow like water 03.Bioinspired whisker arrays can work as antennae to detect sources of flow disturbances under water or in the air 04. The handedness of light holds the key to better optical control 05. How ultrathin polymer films can be used for storage technology 06. Key material development for fusion energy application 07. Photovoltaics: Fully scalable all-perovskite tandem solar modules 08. Physicists harness quantum ‘time reversal’ to measure vibrating atoms 09. A quantum wave in two crystals 10. Researchers create […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of July 15, 2022

01. Atomically-smooth gold crystals help to compress light for nanophotonic applications 02. Customized magneto-optical trap allows for cooling indium atoms to near absolute zero 03. Development of new biomaterial with super strength inspired by limpets 04. Longer lasting sodium-ion batteries on the horizon 05. Physicists discover a “family” of robust, superconducting graphene structures 06. A proof of odd-parity superconductivity 07. Researchers achieve record entanglement of quantum memories 08. Researchers create VX neurotoxin detector 09. Researchers find the missing photonic link to enable an all-silicon quantum internet 10. A robot learns to imagine itself And others… Biodefense Headlines – 12 July […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of July 8, 2022

01. Physicists see electron whirlpools for the first time 02. Bacteria for blastoff: Using microbes to make supercharged new rocket fuel 03. Characterizing the materials for next-generation quantum computers with nonlinear optical spectroscopy 04. These energy-packed batteries work well in extreme cold and heat 05. Found: The ‘holy grail of catalysis’ turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light 06. A four-stroke engine for atoms 07. Hearing better with skin than ears 08. Laser writing may enable ‘electronic nose’ for multi-gas sensor 09. Magnetic spins that ‘freeze’ when heated: Nature in the wrong direction 10. Photon-controlled diode: An optoelectronic […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of July 1, 2022

01. AI Improves Robotic Performance in DARPA’s Machine Common Sense Program 02. Cocrystal engineering—a clever way for designing multifunctional material 03. Controlling non-classical mechanical states in a phononic waveguide architecture 04. Light traveling in a distorting medium can appear undistorted 05. A mirror tracks a single nanoparticle 06. New single-mode semiconductor laser delivers power with scalability 07. Novel gel proves itself to be a highly tunable color filter 08. Quantum network nodes with warm atoms 09. Robot overcomes uncertainty to retrieve buried objects 10. Spray-n-Sense: Spray-painting sensors on any surface And others… Novel microfluidic chip can detect contaminants in 100-picoliter […]

Top 10 Science and Technology Inventions for the Week of June 24, 2022

01. A Huge Step Forward in Quantum Computing Was Just Announced: The First-Ever Quantum Circuit 02. Achieving sub-MHz optical features resonator-free in solid-state 03. Biodegradable electronic ink for recyclable printed electronics 04. Humans Can Learn to ‘Echolocate’ in Just 10 Weeks, Experiment Shows 05. Improving quantum sensors by measuring the orientation of coherent spins inside a diamond lattice 06. Keeping objects levitated by sound airborne despite interference 07. Magnetic superstructures as a promising material for 6G technology 08. Nanoparticles control flow of light like road signs direct traffic 09. New device gets scientists closer to quantum materials breakthrough 10. Organic […]