3D Printers Can Now Build a Livable House in 24 Hours for Under $10,000
Companies like ICON now print full-sized concrete homes in under 24 hours of print time. The materials cost a fraction o…
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DNA Can Store 215 Petabytes of Data Per Gram — All the World's Data in a Shoebox
Researchers have demonstrated that DNA can store 215 petabytes of data in a single gram. At that density, a shoebox of D…
AI Solved the 50-Year-Old Protein Folding Problem, Mapping 200 Million Structures
In 2020, DeepMind's AlphaFold solved one of biology's grand challenges: predicting the 3D structure of proteins from the…
Scientists Created a Nuclear Battery That Lasts for 28,000 Years Without Charging
A new betavoltaic battery uses recycled nuclear waste to generate electricity for 28,000 years. It produces no emissions…
Engineers Achieved Internet Speeds of 22 Petabits Per Second on a Single Fiber
Japanese researchers transmitted 22.9 petabits per second through a single fiber — fast enough to download every Netfl…
A Paralyzed Man Controlled a Computer Cursor With His Mind Using a Brain Chip
In 2024, the first human implant of Neuralink let a paralyzed man play chess and browse the web by simply thinking — r…
Room-Temperature Superconductors Are No Longer Science Fiction
After a century of dreams, materials are emerging that conduct electricity with zero resistance at room temperature. The…
A Single Modern Microchip Has More Transistors Than the Brain Has Neurons
Apple's M2 Ultra chip contains 134 billion transistors. The human brain has approximately 86 billion neurons. Modern sil…
Engineers Created Concrete That Heals Its Own Cracks Using Bacteria Inside the Mix
A Dutch microbiologist embedded calcium-producing bacteria into concrete. When cracks let water in, the bacteria wake up…
Scientists Built Solar Panels That Generate Electricity Even on Cloudy Nights
Stanford engineers built a panel that produces power at night by exploiting the temperature difference between Earth and…