Category: TRENDS IN HI-TECH SCIENCE – Dec 23 2025

For years, chemists have been tinkering with various forms of waste to turn them into useful products. The effort has transformed plant scraps into packaging and plastic trash scooped from the sea into clothing and sneakers.

In 1987, African villagers digging a water well struck a pocket of gas about 330 feet down. The gas streamed out, showing blue in sunlight and gold at night. When a villager looked down the hole while smoking a cigarette, the plume exploded.

A group of bioengineers from Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University have created a paper-thin silicon wafer studded with 65,536 electrodes that can wirelessly transmit data to and from the brain 100 times faster than has been possible before.