💡 Innovation
📼 Technelegy
A new word, helping us cope with the sorrow for what has been lost, and look forward to what is to come.
📡 Longest ultra-secure quantum communication link between continents
Researchers established a 12,900-kilometer quantum communication link between Beijing and Stellenbosch University via satellite, which uses the laws of physics to make eavesdropping impossible.
🌨️ AI systems make weather forecasts 20% more accurate while using much less energy.
New AI can generate 51 different weather forecasts simultaneously to show all possible scenarios. The system creates forecasts over 10 times faster than physics-based systems while reducing energy consumption by approximately 1,000 times.
🚾 Solar energy can recover ammonia from wastewater and reduce climate emissions
Researchers have developed a cheap method for recovering ammonia from wastewater using solar energy. The system can both purify wastewater and provide farmers with cheaper fertilizer. The economic analysis shows that the system can pay for itself in 3.5 years.
💊 Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol
Researchers have discovered that bacteria can convert plastic waste into paracetamol using genetically modified E. coli. The process works with material from plastic bottles and can produce paracetamol with up to 92 percent yield in under 24 hours.
🚰 Desalination plants to produce fresh water on ocean floor
Three companies are developing technology to desalinate seawater in deep water, which can reduce energy consumption by up to 40 percent. The first large-scale facility will start producing 1 million liters of water per day in Norway in 2026.
👁️ Contact lenses that give humans infrared vision
Researchers have created contact lenses that convert infrared light into visible light. The lenses contain nanoparticles of gold and rare earth metals that enable night vision.
🚚 CERN researchers transport antimatter by truck for the first time
CERN has developed a portable container that can transport antimatter by truck between laboratories. The test showed that protons could be transported 4 kilometers without a single particle disappearing during transport.
📜 They have succeeded in reading the title in the rolled 2000-year-old papyrus scroll - wins $60,000
The title "On Vices" by philosopher Philodemus has been recovered from a carbonized papyrus scroll from Herculaneum without unrolling it. Two research teams discovered the title independently using image analysis and improved ink detection methods.