Author Archives: Charles Brass

A ⁠robot named Lightning ⁠has run ​the 100m in 9.32 seconds, ⁠beating the human world ⁠record, China’s ​state broadcaster ‌has reported. The humanoid, developed by the Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor, ‌reached a peak speed of 14.5 metres per second during … Continued

We’re bits of matter and lots of water held together by vast fields of energy. If we didn’t have electromagnetic (EM) energy in our bodies, we would disintegrate. EM energy binds the hydrogen and oxygen atoms that comprise the 60 percent of our … Continued

For decades, a hard physical limit said a solar cell could never produce more energy carriers than the photons it absorbed. Scientists in Japan just broke that ceiling completely. A research team led by Associate Professor Yoichi Sasaki at Kyushu … Continued

In 1991, eight people walked into a giant glass structure in the Arizona desert and sealed the door behind them. They would not open it again for two years. Their goal was as audacious as anything humanity had attempted: to … Continued

Let go of silicon for a second. Every robot ever built relies on a computer chip to make decisions. Scientists just threw that architecture entirely out the window. They took a living king oyster mushroom, wired its mycelium into a … Continued

his image came from the most detailed map of human brain tissue ever produced, a collaborative project between Google and Harvard researchers that took over a decade to complete. The sample they worked with was a cubic millimetre of human … Continued

Energy storage is experiencing a fundamental shift away from traditional chemical reactions. According to a breakthrough reported by ScienceDaily in April 2026, researchers have successfully constructed a working prototype of a quantum battery. Rather than relying on the slow, degrading … Continued

American scientists used quantum tunneling to build transistors ten times smaller than a single atom — crossing a miniaturization threshold that classical semiconductor physics declared impossible and demonstrating that the quantum weirdness that engineers once feared as the enemy of … Continued

Australia just created the world’s longest solar installation — a continuous solar farm stretching 3,700 kilometers along the transcontinental railway line from Darwin to Adelaide, turning the most remote railway on Earth into a clean energy corridor powering every community … Continued

The human body is a deeply complex, interconnected system, and researchers continue to uncover the extent to which its functions depend on those connections. A new study by researchers from University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University suggests age-related changes in gut bacteria may contribute to cognitive decline, … Continued

What may be the first commercially available book saved in DNA is the latest example of how consumers might use molecular data storage the story appears in Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/entire-book-written-in-dna-buy-it-60-dollars/

When a kind-hearted engineer noticed his 89-year-old mentor was unsteady on his feet, he sprang into action and created a futuristic shoe which could one day help him – and scores of other older people – keep their balance. Peter … Continued

Fungi are best known for returning dead, organic matter to the Earth, but materials scientists are exploring whether they could someday help our bodies repair, in the form of special hydrogels. To play a role in biomedical settings, a hydrogel … Continued

Each dot in this image is a working quantum bit. Physicists at Caltech have just unveiled the world’s largest working array of quantum bits (qubits)—an astonishing grid of 6,100 individual cesium atoms, each precisely trapped using beams of laser light. … Continued

This was achieved by researchers in the US, who successfully transmitted this quantum information through more than 30 kilometers (about 18 miles) of fiber optic cable while regular internet traffic was also flowing through the same lines. Quantum teleportation is … Continued