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Scientists Crack the Fabrication Problem Holding Back the Future of Photonic Chips
Researchers solved a long-standing problem in photonics by coating fragile van der Waals materials with aluminum before shaping them. The result is a chip that…
Did Chinese Scientists Just Create a Super Material for Drones and Rockets?
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new way to manufacture composite materials for drones, aircraft, and rockets, challenging six decades of…
Artemis II: What Technology Drives the New Mission to the Moon?
From the most powerful rocket ever flown with crew to laser communications and organ-chips grown from astronaut cells, Artemis II is a showcase of 21st-century…
Scientists Build a Chip That Can Send Data at 362 Gbps
A new chip-scale optical wireless system that transmits data using light instead of radio waves has achieved speeds of 362.7 gigabits per second over a…
Researchers Achieve First Full Logical Operations on a Silicon Quantum Chip
A team of researchers in China has demonstrated for the first time that a silicon-based quantum processor can perform a complete set of error-detecting logical…
This New Satellite Engine Uses Earth’s Own Atmosphere as Fuel, and It Never Runs Out
European researchers have developed an air-breathing electric propulsion system that captures trace atmospheric particles in very low Earth orbit and uses them as fuel, eliminating…
Researchers Built a Hydrogen Fuel Cell That Works Without a Single Gram of Platinum
A new report shows Pakistan’s venture-backed startup ecosystem has grown 3.6 times since 2020, faster than India in percentage terms. But not a single company…
Japan Just Built a Wi-Fi Chip That Survives Nuclear Meltdowns
A team at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has developed a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi receiver chip that withstands radiation doses far beyond what would destroy…
Scientists Finally Figured Out How to Make a Solid Battery Actually Work
Lithium-ion batteries power nearly everything, from phones and laptops to electric vehicles. But the liquid electrolytes inside them are flammable, and that fundamental chemistry has…
Scientists Build a Chip That Lets Robots See in 4D for the First Time
Researchers in Switzerland have packed an advanced imaging system onto a single silicon chip that can map 3D environments while simultaneously measuring the velocity of…
Scientists Finally Crack the Mystery of Why Lithium-Ion Batteries Die
New research reveals that lithium dendrites, the microscopic metal growths that cause battery failure and safety hazards, behave more like snapping dry spaghetti than bending…
200,000 Lab-Grown Human Brain Cells Can Now Play Video Games
Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has upgraded from Pong to a full 3D first-person shooter, demonstrating adaptive real-time learning by biological neurons and raising urgent…
