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Illustration of axially aligned iron and cobalt atoms boosting oxygen reactions in a zinc-air battery catalyst.

Scientists Engineer Atomic “Power Couples” That Supercharge Zinc-Air Batteries

December 17, 2025 No Comments

Illustration of a social network with connected silhouettes representing how gossip spreads through human relationships.

How Brown University Scientists Discovered the Hidden Math Behind Gossip — And Why We Rarely Get Caught

December 2, 2025 No Comments

Experimental heavy-lift drone carrying a large payload during a DARPA test flight.

DARPA’s Lift Challenge: The $6.5M Heavy-Lift Drone Race That Could Reshape Vertical Flight

December 1, 2025 No Comments

Diagram-style illustration of an air-powered self-charging organic redox flow battery with liquid tanks, oxygen bubbling, and metal negative electrode.

Self-Charging Organic Flow Batteries: A Fast, Air-Powered Upgrade for Grid-Scale Storage

November 25, 2025 No Comments

Underwater concrete energy-storage sphere anchored on the seabed with a pump-turbine pipe and power cable, shown at deep-ocean depth

Seabed Energy Storage: The Giant Underwater “Battery” That Could Power the Future

November 19, 2025 No Comments

All-plasmonic sub-terahertz wireless bridge converting fiber-optic data into a 285 GHz beam between two plasmonic chips.

Light-Powered 6G: Inside the All-Plasmonic Sub-Terahertz Wireless Link That Hits 120 Gbit/s

November 14, 2025 No Comments

High-speed underwater communication using laser-based optical links between robotic vehicles.

Kyocera Hits 5.2Gbps Underwater—A Breakthrough That Could Change Ocean Exploration Forever

November 13, 2025 No Comments

Magnetostrictive ribbon resonator driven by magnetic coils creating a tunable mechanical frequency comb.

Magnetostrictive Mechanical Frequency Combs: Turning Magnetic Vibrations into Tunable Sound Rulers

November 12, 2025 No Comments

Spin-on deposition of amorphous zeolitic imidazolate framework film on a silicon wafer.

The Next Spin in Microchip FabricationSpinning the Future: How Amorphous MOF Films Could Revolutionize Microchip LithographyThe Next Spin in Microchip Fabrication

November 6, 2025 No Comments

Fiber array sends trap and control beams through the same path to address individual atoms in a 2D optical tweezer grid.

Fiber-Array Qubits: How Neutral-Atom Quantum Computers Just Leveled Up

November 5, 2025 No Comments

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Illustration of axially aligned iron and cobalt atoms boosting oxygen reactions in a zinc-air battery catalyst.

Scientists Engineer Atomic “Power Couples” That Supercharge Zinc-Air Batteries

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