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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…