Tag: Science

For more than 70 years, scientists have been trying and failing to create sustainable fusion power—a process of smashing atoms together with such force that they fuse, releasing vast amounts of energy. 

In electric vehicles, electrical components called capacitors are used in various ways, but they all work alike: they absorb electricity fast and disperse it just as quickly. It’s an essential quality for things like acceleration.

Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology has spun off Sinonus, a startup to commercialize research that has evolved a rigid, lightweight carbon fabric that can function as a battery.

Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have expanded existing gene-editing technology and are now able to substitute entire genes within human cells. The implications for gene therapy are major.

FinalSpark, a Swiss company, is offering clients time on its new computer—a computer called Neuroplatform made up of four living human brain organoids wired together and connected to computer chips.

Dozens of cities in China and along the U.S. east coast are sinking under their own weight, according to new satellite data that has been measuring land movement over time. 

Around the world, at least 80 different ventures are designing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to meet intense localized energy needs, such as AI data centers, or to add incremental capacity to a grid.