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Batteries with water-based electrolytes offer more energy using new cathode

The innovation is claimed to be ideal for cold-climate electronics, wearable devices, and grid storage.

Researchers have demonstrated that aqueous zinc-ion batteries can offer long-term cycling stability and higher energy density with a new method.

Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Shenzhen University used a different type of cathode that delivers exceptional performance in aqueous zinc-ion batteries across a wide temperature range.

They developed a novel K⁺ and C3N4 co-intercalated NH4V4O10 (KNVO-C3N4) cathode to use in aqueous zinc-ion batteries.

Nobel winner’s lab notches another breakthrough: AI-designed antibodies that hit their targets

Researchers from Nobel Laureate David Baker’s lab and the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design (IPD) have used artificial intelligence to design antibodies from scratch — notching another game-changing breakthrough for the scientists and their field of research.

“It was really a grand challenge — a pipe dream,” said Andrew Borst, head of electron microscopy R&D at IPD. Now that they’ve hit the milestone of engineering antibodies that successfully bind to their targets, the research “can go on and it can grow to heights that you can’t imagine right now.”

Borst and his colleagues are publishing their work in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. The development could supercharge the $200 billion antibody drug industry.

Quantum fusion of independent networks based on multi-user entanglement swapping

The quantum fusion of two independent 10-user networks is demonstrated based on multi-user entanglement swapping. Active temporal and wavelength multiplexing schemes are developed to merge the two networks into a larger network with 18 users in the quantum correlation layer.

Fake or the real thing? How AI can make it harder to trust the pictures we see

A new study has revealed that artificial intelligence can now generate images of real people that are virtually impossible to tell apart from genuine photographs.

Using AI models ChatGPT and DALL·E, a team of researchers from Swansea University, the University of Lincoln and Ariel University in Israel, created highly realistic images of both fictional and famous faces, including celebrities.

They found that participants were unable to reliably distinguish them from authentic photos—even when they were familiar with the person’s appearance.

‘This is easily the most powerful quantum computer on Earth’: Scientists unveil Helios, a record-breaking quantum system

Scientists have built a 98-qubit machine that they say performs better than any other quantum computer in the world. They’ve used it to gain new insights into superconducting physics.

A genetic switch lets plants accept nitrogen-fixing bacteria

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how some plants survive without nitrogen. Their work could eventually reduce the need for artificial fertilizer in crops such as wheat, maize, or rice.

“We are one step closer to greener and climate-friendlier food production,” say Kasper Røjkjær Andersen and Simona Radutoiu, both professors of molecular biology at Aarhus University. The findings are published in the journal Nature.

The two researchers led a new study where they discovered an important key to understanding how we can reduce agriculture’s need for artificial fertilizer.

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