New concentrator could help solar panels capture more sunlight – without tracking it

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/agile-concentrator-solar-panels/?amp=1

Stopping Memory Loss: Blood Vessel Breakthrough Major Step Towards Alzheimer’s Treatment

https://scitechdaily.com/stopping-memory-loss-blood-vessel-breakthrough-major-step-towards-alzheimers-treatment/

Scientists Show Off "Wearable Muscles" You Can Strap on to Get Way Stronger

https://futurism.com/the-byte/wearable-muscles-strap-stronger

Startup Claims New Military Tech Can See Straight Through Walls

https://futurism.com/the-byte/startup-new-military-tech-straight-through-walls

The Michael Jordan of Solar Cells: New Technology Proves Its Lasting Power

https://scitechdaily.com/the-michael-jordan-of-solar-cells-new-technology-proves-its-lasting-power/

Scientists Used CRISPR to Trace Every Human Gene to Its Function

Impressive!

https://singularityhub.com/2022/06/20/scientists-used-crispr-to-trace-every-human-gene-to-its-function/

The biggest myths about electric vehicles

I want one next:

https://www.freethink.com/technology/myths-about-electric-vehicles

Enabling Technologies of Tomorrow: Nanoparticles Control Flow of Light Like Road Signs Direct Traffic

Potentially wide-ranging technology to keep an eye on:

https://scitechdaily.com/enabling-technologies-of-tomorrow-nanoparticles-control-flow-of-light-like-road-signs-direct-traffic/

Single Brain Scan Can Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Quickly and Accurately

Excellent news:

https://scitechdaily.com/single-brain-scan-can-diagnose-alzheimers-disease-quickly-and-accurately/

MIT Pioneers Technology To Grow Customizable Wood Products in the Lab With Little Waste

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-pioneers-technology-to-grow-customizable-wood-products-in-the-lab-with-little-waste/

Why Boston Dynamics is Building a Super Robot Army

Good update:

https://youtu.be/LLSqc-p4UhI

Scientists Develop “Nanomachines” That Can Penetrate and Kill Cancer Cells

An interesting approach:

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-develop-nanomachines-that-can-penetrate-and-kill-cancer-cells/

Making Mind Reading Possible: Invention Allows Amputees To Control a Robotic Arm With Their Mind

https://scitechdaily.com/making-mind-reading-possible-invention-allows-amputees-to-control-a-robotic-arm-with-their-mind/

A New Breakthrough Could Make It Possible To Harvest Solar Power at Night

https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-breakthrough-could-make-it-possible-to-harvest-solar-power-at-night/

What happens when two artificial intelligences are let loose to talk to one another

https://youtu.be/jz78fSnBG0s

Special Ointments Can Remove Large Birthmarks and Prevent Skin Cancer

https://scitechdaily.com/special-ointments-can-remove-large-birthmarks-and-prevent-skin-cancer/

Real Telekinesis: Chinese Scientists Advance Toward Moving Things With Our Thoughts

Cool idea…but China:

https://scitechdaily.com/real-telekinesis-chinese-scientists-advance-toward-moving-things-with-our-thoughts/

Quantum Chip Takes Microseconds to Do a Task a Supercomputer Would Spend 9,000 Years On

Wow:

https://singularityhub.com/2022/06/07/a-photonic-quantum-device-took-microseconds-to-do-a-task-a-conventional-computer-would-spend-9000-years-on/

Saudi Arabia plans to spend $1 billion a year discovering treatments to slow aging

Good, we need this...although Saudi money isn't my first choice:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/07/1053132/saudi-arabia-slow-aging-metformin/

Skin Cancer Breakthrough: Researchers Succeed in Making Cells Commit ‘Suicide’

Encouraging:

https://scitechdaily.com/skin-cancer-breakthrough-researchers-succeed-in-making-cells-commit-suicide/

Unique Quantum Material Could Enable Incredibly Powerful, Ultra-Compact Computers

https://scitechdaily.com/unique-quantum-material-could-enable-incredibly-powerful-ultra-compact-computers/

“Conscious AI” responds to Elon Musk.

Wow, A.I. appears to be over 95% indistinguishable from humans in conversation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNvj7ku5pY

New Evidence for Alternate Origins of Alzheimer’s Disease Plaques

https://scitechdaily.com/new-evidence-for-alternate-origins-of-alzheimers-disease-plaques/

Protein Destroys ‘Hard to Treat’ Cancers, Could Become ‘One Size Fits All’ Pill

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/university-of-texas-cancer-breakthrough-erx-41/

Bending the Laws of Physics: Time Crystals “Impossible” but Obey Quantum Physics

Very cool:

https://scitechdaily.com/bending-the-laws-of-physics-time-crystals-impossible-but-obey-quantum-physics/

Skin cells made 30 years younger with new 'rejuvenation' technique

Wow:

"Researchers in the U.K. have developed a way to reverse the aging process in skin cells, turning back the biological clock by about 30 years."

https://www.livescience.com/skin-cell-rejuvenation-30-years-younger

“Reverse Engineering” Brain Tissue Reveals Sugar-Studded Protein Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/reverse-engineering-brain-tissue-reveals-sugar-studded-protein-linked-to-alzheimers-disease/

Fundamental Breakthrough: Error-Free Quantum Computing Gets Real

https://scitechdaily.com/fundamental-breakthrough-error-free-quantum-computing-gets-real/

Möbius Carbon Nanobelt: A Möbius Strip Constructed Solely of Carbon Atoms

https://scitechdaily.com/mobius-carbon-nanobelt-a-mobius-strip-constructed-solely-of-carbon-atoms/

Turns out the fountain of youth was hiding in raw sea squirts this whole time

Seems an easy thing to try, but since some people consume that regularly and apparently show no signs of extremely long lifespans, I’m a bit skeptical:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/turns-fountain-youth-hiding-raw-140006745.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb&tsrc=fb

New Energy Storage System Is More Efficient and Potentially Transformative

https://scitechdaily.com/new-energy-storage-system-is-more-efficient-and-potentially-transformative/

A Step Towards Seasonal Storage: “Freeze-Thaw Battery” Can Freeze Its Energy for Later Use

https://scitechdaily.com/a-step-towards-seasonal-storage-freeze-thaw-battery-can-freeze-its-energy-for-later-use/

Ultrafast Computers Are Coming: Laser Bursts Drive Fastest-Ever Logic Gates

https://scitechdaily.com/ultrafast-computers-are-coming-laser-bursts-drive-fastest-ever-logic-gates/

A One-and-Done CRISPR Gene Therapy Will Aim to Prevent Heart Attacks

https://singularityhub.com/2022/05/16/a-one-and-done-crispr-gene-therapy-will-aim-to-prevent-heart-attacks/

Producing High-Quality Graphene Cheaply Using Carbon Monoxide

https://scitechdaily.com/producing-high-quality-graphene-cheaply-using-carbon-monoxide/

Fecal Transplants Reverse Hallmarks of Aging in the Gut, Eyes, and Brain

This may be a good way to stave off dementia. But how likely is it that an old person won’t get arrested asking young people if he can insert something in their asses?

https://scitechdaily.com/fecal-transplants-reverse-hallmarks-of-aging-in-the-gut-eyes-and-brain/

Laser Pulses for Ultrafast Signal Processing Could Make Computers a Million Times Faster

https://scitechdaily.com/laser-pulses-for-ultrafast-signal-processing-could-make-computers-a-million-times-faster/

Surprising Bacterial Nanowire Discovery May Lead to Living and Self-Repairing Electrical Circuits

https://scitechdaily.com/surprising-bacterial-nanowire-discovery-may-lead-to-living-and-self-repairing-electrical-circuits/

Patent-Pending Technology Converts “Waste” Carbon Into Valuable Chemicals and Useful Elements

https://scitechdaily.com/patent-pending-technology-converts-waste-carbon-into-valuable-chemicals-and-useful-elements/

Bilayer graphene inspires two-universe cosmological model

I love weird stuff like this. And it’s falsifiable!

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-bilayer-graphene-two-universe-cosmological.html

Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Supercharge Recycling and Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste

About damn time, but what might happen if the bacteria gets loose on plastics that are meant to last a while?

https://scitechdaily.com/plastic-eating-enzyme-could-supercharge-recycling-and-eliminate-billions-of-tons-of-landfill-waste/

Bacterial Enzyme Converts CO2 Into Carbon Compounds 20x Faster Than Photosynthesis

https://scitechdaily.com/bacterial-enzyme-converts-co2-into-carbon-compounds-20x-faster-than-photosynthesis/

New Possibilities Discovered for Room-Temperature Superconductivity

https://scitechdaily.com/new-possibilities-discovered-for-room-temperature-superconductivity/

From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button

https://news.mit.edu/2022/portable-desalination-drinking-water-0428

Cheaper Hydrogen Fuel Cell Invented – Enabling Better Green Energy Options

https://scitechdaily.com/cheaper-hydrogen-fuel-cell-invented-enabling-better-green-energy-options/

OpenAI DALL-E 2: Top 10 Insane Results!

This is very impressive. Imagine what that'll do for anything you want designed in a few years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_LD3R_Ygs

For mRNA, Covid Vaccines Are Just the Beginning

"Dozens of clinical trials are now underway for new forms of the mRNA vaccine—targeting everything from malaria to Zika, herpes, and cytomegalovirus. Last month, Moderna—which was founded in 2014 to explore the potential of mRNA—announced it had started Phase I clinical trials for two mRNA-based HIV vaccines."

"It’s true that mRNA vaccines would probably have come to market eventually, but they were on what Dieffenbach calls “a leisurely stroll.” Covid “pressure-tested” them—advancing their emergence by years or decades."

"If the logistical and technical hurdles can be overcome, and the technology can be distributed evenly, mRNA has the potential to transform every strand of medicine. “In the next 10 years, you will see unbelievable progress,” she says."

https://www.wired.com/story/for-mrna-vaccines-covid-was-just-the-beginning/

New Materials Enable Cheaper Solar Cells That Are Easier To Make

https://scitechdaily.com/new-materials-enable-cheaper-solar-cells-that-are-easier-to-make/

Skin cells made 30 years younger with new 'rejuvenation' technique

30 years! That is eye-opening:

https://www.livescience.com/skin-cell-rejuvenation-30-years-younger

Noninvasive Sound Technology Breaks Down Tumors, Kills Cancer Cells, and Spurs the Immune System

https://scitechdaily.com/noninvasive-sound-technology-breaks-down-tumors-kills-cancer-cells-and-spurs-the-immune-system/

Endocrinologist Discovers Potential New Ways To Prevent Cognitive Decline From Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/endocrinologist-discovers-potential-new-ways-to-prevent-cognitive-decline-from-alzheimers-disease/

I’d like to know what this means, though. I take omega-3 fatty acid supplements:

“It has been proven that APOE4 oxidizes omega-3s and that low levels of the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In earlier studies, Yassine’s team found that cognitively healthy participants who took omega-3 supplements had 200 percent more DHA in their blood compared to the control group and 28 percent more in the cerebrospinal fluid, a measure of brain uptake. However, APOE4 carriers had lower increases in brain DHA and EPA than non-carriers after supplementation.”

Capturing Solar Energy and Converting It to Electricity When Needed – Up to 18 Years Later

“The Swedish researchers sent their specially designed molecule, loaded with solar energy, to colleagues Tao Li and Zhiyu Hu at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where the energy was released and converted into electricity using the generator they developed there. Essentially, Swedish sunshine was sent to the other side of the world and converted into electricity in China.”

https://scitechdaily.com/capturing-solar-energy-and-converting-it-to-electricity-when-needed-up-to-18-years-later/

Small HDL “Good Cholesterol” Particles May Help Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/small-hdl-good-cholesterol-particles-may-help-protect-against-alzheimers-disease/

New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Could Fully Decarbonize the Power Grid

Impressive:

https://scitechdaily.com/new-heat-engine-with-no-moving-parts-could-fully-decarbonize-the-power-grid/

Quantum Internet Breakthrough – Bell State Analyzer Presents Giant Leap Toward Fully Quantum Internet

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-internet-breakthrough-bell-state-analyzer-presents-giant-leap-toward-fully-quantum-internet/

mRNA Quality Control: Root Cause of Tau-Induced Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias

https://scitechdaily.com/mrna-quality-control-root-cause-of-tau-induced-neurodegeneration-in-alzheimers-and-related-dementias/

Researchers Set New World Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-set-new-world-record-for-solar-cell-efficiency/

Scientists Shatter Record for the Amount of Energy Produced During a Controlled, Sustained Fusion Reaction

We’re getting there!

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-shatter-record-for-the-amount-of-energy-produced-during-a-controlled-sustained-fusion-reaction/

Revamped design could take powerful biological computers from the test tube to the cell

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-revamped-powerful-biological-tube-cell.html

Startup Says It’s Created an Actual “Invisibility Shield”

Very impressive:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/startup-invisibility-shield

Cellular 'Rejuvenation' Experiment in Mice Reverses Signs of Aging, Scientists Say

"Although this technique can be used to turn adult cells back into stem cells, the current team had previously shown it can also be used to 'partially reprogram' the cells by reverting them into a more youthful state, but not completely becoming a stem cell again. If the same thing were done to enough cells in an animal's body, this could potentially make the whole organism's body clock seem younger."

https://www.sciencealert.com/making-cells-revert-to-a-younger-state-safely-reversed-signs-of-aging-in-mice?fbclid=IwAR3QBj9J64L7Xjg8ZWfn5jPrAnh0iyUo7LcToI9PcnfuHCA8CT7T80917co

Key Protein Identified That Could Be Harnessed to Extend Healthy Lifespan in Humans

https://scitechdaily.com/key-protein-identified-that-could-be-harnessed-to-extend-healthy-lifespan-in-humans/

Quantum Gravity Sensor Breakthrough Paves Way for Groundbreaking Map of World Under Earth’s Surface

https://scitechdaily.com/quantum-gravity-sensor-breakthrough-paves-way-for-groundbreaking-map-of-world-under-earth-surface/

Breakthrough discovery in light interactions with nanoparticles paves the way for advances in optical computing

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-breakthrough-discovery-interactions-nanoparticles-paves.html

Transistors Reach Tipping Point At 3nm

https://semiengineering.com/transistors-reach-tipping-point-at-3nm/

DeepMind scientists say they trained an A.I. to control a nuclear fusion reactor

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/18/deepmind-scientists-trained-an-ai-to-control-nuclear-fusion-.html

Breakthrough Discovery of New Model for “Global” DNA Repair

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-discovery-of-new-model-for-global-dna-repair/

“Time Jump” by 30 Years: Old Skins Cells Reprogrammed To Regain Youthful Function

https://scitechdaily.com/time-jump-by-30-years-old-skins-cells-reprogrammed-to-regain-youthful-function/

Harvesting Energy at Night: Solar Cell Keeps Working Long After Sun Sets

https://scitechdaily.com/harvesting-energy-at-night-solar-cell-keeps-working-long-after-sun-sets/

Startup Claims Fusion Power "Breakthrough" Using Massive Gun

I’ve played enough computer games to know that BFG does NOT stand for “Big FRIENDLY Gun.”

https://futurism.com/the-byte/startup-projectile-fusion-massive-gun

Inside Epic's Unreal Engine 5—and What It Means for the Future of Gaming, Movies, and the Metaverse

Wow. The photorealism is here, truly indistinguishable from real life. Now they just have to develop an interface that makes it simple to create without a huge learning curve.

https://time.com/6164332/epic-unreal-engine-5-launch/

(Watch the video of the carpenter’s cellar toward the bottom.)

EV Charging Answer: Quantum Technology Will Cut Time it Takes to Charge Electric Cars to Just 9 Seconds

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/quantum-technology-will-cut-time-to-charge-ev-to-9-seconds/

Can wind, water and air combine in a new energy revolution? This Chilean startup wants to find out

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/01/americas/hif-haru-oni-chile-efuel-spc-intl-scn/index.html

Is Aging Reversible? A Scientific Look with David Sinclair

Very interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLZEEOZlTzo

HB11's hydrogen-boron laser fusion test yields groundbreaking results

This is extremely exciting:

https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-laser-fusion-demonstration/

AI-Designed Protein Can Awaken Silenced Genes, One by One

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-designed-protein-can-awaken-silenced-genes-one-by-one/

Tokamak Energy achieves temperature threshold for commercial fusion

https://newatlas.com/energy/tokamak-energy-temperature-threshold-commercial-fusion/

Our universe may have a twin that runs backward in time

Fascinating:

https://www.livescience.com/mirror-universe-explains-dark-matter

Scientists Discover Promising New Electrolyte for Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-promising-new-electrolyte-for-solid-state-lithium-ion-batteries/

Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy Safely Reverses the Aging Process in Mice

This looks extremely promising:

“When the researchers looked at normal signs of aging in the animals that had undergone the treatment, they found that the mice, in many ways, resembled younger animals. In both the kidneys and skin, the epigenetics of treated animals more closely resembled epigenetic patterns seen in younger animals. When injured, the skin cells of treated animals had a greater ability to proliferate and were less likely to form permanent scars—older animals usually show less skin cell proliferation and more scarring. Moreover, metabolic molecules in the blood of treated animals did not show normal age-related changes.”

https://scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-breakthrough-cellular-rejuvenation-therapy-safely-reverses-the-aging-process-in-mice/

Scientists Develop Breakthrough Method for Recycling Industrial Plastics at Room Temperature in 20 Minutes

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/upcycling-plastic-waste-valuable-materials-uni-bath/

What's Her Secret?

A.I. just keeps on advancing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS1m_TIxEW0&feature=youtu.be

Fusion Breakthrough Once Thought Impossible Brings Energy Device Closer to Realization

https://scitechdaily.com/fusion-breakthrough-once-thought-impossible-brings-energy-device-closer-to-realization/

Techno-optimism and the rule-of-threes: why the world will soon enter an era of mass flourishing

Encouraging, although I think the rule of threes sounds a bit forced:

https://bigthink.com/the-future/mass-flourishing-mark-mills/

Startup Will Drill 12 Miles Into Earth’s Crust to Tap the Boundless Energy Below

https://singularityhub.com/2022/02/14/startup-aims-to-drill-12-miles-into-earths-crust-to-tap-the-boundless-energy-below/

Electric Machines on a Molecular Scale: Researchers Create Molecule That Can Pave Way for Mini-Transistors

https://scitechdaily.com/electric-machines-on-a-molecular-scale-researchers-create-molecule-that-can-pave-way-for-mini-transistors/

Turning Trash Into Treasure: Chemists’ Radical Way To Make It Easier, More Profitable To Recycle Plastic

https://scitechdaily.com/turning-trash-into-treasure-chemists-radical-way-to-make-it-easier-more-profitable-to-recycle-plastic/

Department of Energy’s “Fairly Simple” Breakthrough Makes Accessing Stored Hydrogen More Efficient

https://scitechdaily.com/doe-fairly-simple-breakthrough-makes-accessing-stored-hydrogen-more-efficient/

A Simple Eye Test May Identify Risk of Alzheimer’s in Middle Age

https://scitechdaily.com/a-simple-eye-test-may-identify-risk-of-alzheimers-in-middle-age/

Breakthrough in Cathode Chemistry Clears Path for More-Sustainable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-in-cathode-chemistry-clears-path-for-more-sustainable-lithium-sulfur-batteries/

OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious

https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-already-sentient

and

https://futurism.com/mit-researcher-conscious-ai

Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

Nanodiamonds Are Key to Efficient Hydrogen Purification – And a Zero-Carbon Future

https://scitechdaily.com/nanodiamonds-are-key-to-efficient-hydrogen-purification-and-a-zero-carbon-future/

Game-Changing Carbon Capture Technology To Remove 99% of CO2 From Air

https://scitechdaily.com/game-changing-carbon-capture-technology-to-remove-99-of-co2-from-air/

Company That Put Rifle on Robodog Deploying Anti-Immigrant Bots to Mexico Border

Uh-oh:

https://futurism.com/sniper-rifle-robot-dog

And then:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/rifle-robodog-mexico-border

MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic/

Surprising New Material Invented That Can Absorb and Release Massive Amounts of Energy

https://scitechdaily.com/surprising-new-material-invented-that-can-absorb-and-release-massive-amounts-of-energy/

U.S. Project Reaches Major Milestone toward Practical Fusion Power

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-project-reaches-major-milestone-toward-practical-fusion-power/

Ultrathin Materials Lead to Big Advance in Quantum Computing

https://scitechdaily.com/ultrathin-materials-lead-to-big-advance-in-quantum-computing/

Most “Pathogenic” Genetic Variants Have a Low Risk of Actually Causing Disease

This is encouraging:

https://scitechdaily.com/most-pathogenic-genetic-variants-have-a-low-risk-of-actually-causing-disease/