By 2027, Toyota will perfect a solid-state battery for all-electric vehicles, the company announced on 4 July.
Tag: Science
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NSF GRANTS FUND SCIENCE AND TECH INNOVATION AS ECONOMIC ENGINES
The National Science Foundation has named 34 semifinalists in the first round of its Regional Innovation Engine program. Five winners will be named this fall to share $15 million over two years, then split another $145 million.
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QUANTUM COMPUTING TAKES TWO GIANT STEPS FORWARD
Two new breakthroughs have moved quantum computers closer to practical use.
Quantum computers can store vastly more data and process it far faster than conventional computers. The reason: current computers store data as a series of ones and zeros. Each digit is stored in a specific spot in a computer’s memory chips and the computer processes each digit one after the other.
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TWO SUBSTANCES THE HUMAN BODY MAKES MAY BE KEY TO DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER’S
An obscure enzyme named HDAC9 may be a key to understanding the origins and prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia in general.
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A WHOLE NEW WAY FOR COMPUTERS TO REMEMBER
Silicon-based computer chips remember things by storing each bit of data as a 1 or a 0 and putting the pieces in different places. Shuttling those data bits back and forth and collating them together takes time and energy.
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NEW PROCESS PULLS STRAY LITHIUM FROM OIL AND GAS WELLS
It’s ironic: in a world running short of the lithium needed to ease the world past the oil age, oil and gas wells can help make up that shortage.
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ROBOT LEARNS TO DO YOUR CHORES BY WATCHING HOW-TO VIDEOS
At Carnegie Mellon University, engineers are teaching robots to handle routine household chores by showing them how-to videos.
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HAVE DIABETES? EAT YOUR INSULIN
Borrowing a technique from plants, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s dental school have infused lettuce with the three proteins that make up insulin, the drug that controls symptoms of diabetes.
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SOLAR REACTOR CONVERTS PLASTIC TRASH, CARBON FROM AIR INTO FUEL
At the University of Cambridge, researchers have created a solar-powered reactor that can turn carbon pulled from the air into “syngas” or synthetic gas, a hydrocarbon that can be used as a fuel or chemical feedstock in a variety of manufacturing processes.
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NEW HYDROGEL DISTILLS WATER FROM AIR
The world is running short of clean water at a time when the global population is growing.