45+ min ago  (176+ words) Safe and sustainable zinc batteries have made major inroads in the energy storage space over the past five years, accumulating$1. 3 billionin combined private and public investmentand leading to a half-dozen factorybuilds. Last month Ienjoyedcollaboratingwith U. S. Department of Energy leadership at a…...

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53+ min ago  (272+ words) Will the AI boom'crash against the cliffs of physical reality, or does free-market capitalism still hold undiscovered paths to reduce or bypass scarcity in copper, power grids, transformers, and semiconductors? Thomas Kolbe | May 18, 2026 The boom in artificial intelligence is fueling…...

5+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1204+ words) Recent advancements have demonstrated the existence of phononic skyrmions in elastic wave systems, where the hybrid spin of elastic waves was used to generate and characterize topological properties at macroscopic, centimeter-length scales17. However, precise optical tuning of these topological features and…...

7+ hour, 36+ min ago  (207+ words) Repetitive Synthesis Inserts Boron-Oxygen Bonds into Pentacene Skeleton Method Enables Control of Molecular Length and Bond Arrangement A Korean research team has devised a new synthesis technique that can fundamentally reconstruct the molecular skeleton of organic semiconductors. A joint research…...

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3+ hour, 42+ min ago  (313+ words) A key factor behind these effects is the behavior of magnetic domains, which are tiny magnetic regions inside materials. The arrangement and structure of these domains strongly affect how magnetic materials respond to heat and how much energy they lose…...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago  (558+ words) Most conventional bioplastics rely on "first-generation" feedstocks like corn starch or sugarcane. These crops compete directly with food production and demand significant arable land and water. We source non-food agricultural residues instead, specifically lignocellulosic biomass from hemp, nettle, and flax,…...

4+ hour, 15+ min ago  (339+ words) Metal'amide chemistry provides a rational approach to controlling heavy-pnictogen reduction, paving the way for safer and more scalable semiconductor quantum dots. A research team led by Professor Sohee Jeong at Sungkyunkwan University has uncovered a key chemical pathway for the…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago  (65+ words) Optical condensation using a fiber-based photothermal module (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! The system achieves about tenfold higher collection efficiency than conventional approaches, enabling the assembly of approximately 10, 000 microparticles or bacteria in just 60 seconds. News organizations may use or redistribute this image,…...