In the coming years, batteries so tiny yet powerful could revolutionize everything from smartphones to supercomputers.
Energy storage is about to take a massive leap forward, with the new concept of “topological quantum battery” at the forefront.
A theoretical study by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and Huazhong University of Science and Technology has shown how to efficiently design a quantum battery.
British firm the RML Group has been granted Conformity of Production (CoP) approval for its new VarEVolt battery, ticking a crucial box as it prepares to pitch the pack to major car makers.
It has been verified as building products compliant with safety standard UN ECE Regulation 100, a requirement for many larger OEMs and car manufacturers.
“Performance is a key part of what RML offers,” said James Arkell, RML’s head of powertrain. “Doing this safely, reliably and repeatably is key to our success, and this certification solidifies that message to the industry.”
Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we’ll need to radically change how we think and behave.
AI may be limited by a lack of taste, touch and smell which prevents it from fully understanding concepts in the same way as humans — suggesting that more advanced models may need to have a robot body
Many microorganisms are capable of purposeful movement through liquids. But how do they achieve this without a complex nervous system? New research from TU Wien offers intriguing insights. Bacteria can do it. Amoebas can do it. Even your blood cells can do it. All of these tiny life forms have th
Sometimes I watch videos on YouTube. There was this fun Veritasium video with an interesting interview question from Google. It goes something like this.
You are shrunk down to the size of a nickel and put in a blender. How do you escape before the blender is turned on?
The answer is apparently that you just jump out. The idea is that a 5 centimeter tall person could jump just as high as a normal sized person. I mean, it sort of makes sense — there are many dogs that can jump as high as a horse, right?
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Australian startup Cortical Labs unveils CL1, a groundbreaking biocomputer using human neurons on silicon chips. This fusion offers real-time learning and adaptation, revolutionizing neuroscience and biotech research. Could this be the dawn of bioengineered intelligence?
For decades, we’ve thought the control center of life lies in DNA. But a new scientific framework is emerging that challenges that idea, and suggests that vast portions of the genome are immaterial and lie outside the physical world. Today, physicist Dr. Brian Miller shares his perspective on the cutting-edge, potentially revolutionary research of mathematical biologist Dr. Richard Sternberg on the immaterial aspects of the genome. In this exchange, Dr. Miller shares several examples of the immaterial nature of life. These ideas point towards the earliest stages of the next great scientific revolution and have significant implications for the intelligent design debate.
Scheiner and Zierkiewicz, however, have been studying apical carbon atoms in propellane and pyramidane molecules, where the bonding situation is rather different. Along with Mariusz Michalczyk, also at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, they’ve identified an electron-donating orbital – or pseudo lone pair – on these tetrahedral carbons.
While it clearly has a negative charge, Scheiner acknowledges that the nature of this electron-donating orbital could be up for debate. Nonetheless, it appears that this region of negative electrostatic potential can attract the σ-hole of an electrophile to form various non-covalent interactions including hydrogen, halogen, chalcogen, pnictogen and tetrel bonds.
