Scientific Breakthrough
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…
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…
Researchers Build Light-Powered AI Chips That Let Robots Learn Autonomously
A team at Xidian University has created a photonic neuromorphic chip that performs both linear and nonlinear neural computations entirely using light, removing the electronic…
Japanese Researchers Build A Bendable Battery That Can Make Lithium Batteries Obsolete
A University of Tsukuba team has replaced expensive platinum cathodes with nitrogen-doped nanoporous graphene, solving a decade-old degradation problem that kept magnesium-air batteries from competing…
How China’s “Flying” EV Chargers Make Standard Plugs Look Obsolete
A viral video circulating on social media has people in awe. The video shows China’s innovative approach to electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the form…
Breakthrough H12 Engine Promises 40% Better Fuel Economy
A new hybrid powertrain concept designed to operate on 100% renewable gasoline is promising up to 40% lower fuel consumption compared with conventional internal combustion…
