Reinventing Cement with Volcanic Chemistry to Create More Sustainable Building Materials
In AD 79, the Roman writer Pliny the Elder marveled in his Natural History at the phenomenon of dust turning to stone upon contact with water. The "Puteoli dust" he described—now known as pozzolan...
[2025-12-23]
U.S.-German Joint Research: Rice Brewing Beer Potential Highlighted, Overturning Traditional Biases
For a long time, rice has been regarded in beer brewing as a cheap adjunct or even a "non-traditional ingredient," but the latest research by Christian Schubert, visiting researcher at the Berlin Re...
[2025-12-23]
Quaise's Rock-Melting Drilling Technology: Unlocking New Potential for Geothermal Energy
The rock-melting drilling technology from geothermal startup Quaise breaks away from tradition and holds promise as the key to unlocking geothermal energy potential, making it viable anywhere in the w...
[2025-12-23]
Thea Energy's High-Temperature Superconducting Coil Breakthrough Overcomes Stellarator Technical Bottleneck
On July 31, the U.S. stellarator commercial fusion company Thea Energy published its latest research in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. The company's developed "Canis" 3×3 high-tem...
[2025-12-23]
International Study Reveals Mechanism of Lithium Coating's Impact on Fusion Fuel Retention
An international research team led by the U.S. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published the latest findings in Nuclear Materials and Energy, systematically analyzing the impact of lith...
University of California Develops Gold Coating Technology to Enhance Quantum Computer Stability
Quantum computers can solve complex problems in a short time that would take traditional computers thousands of years, showing enormous potential in fields such as drug development and machine learnin...
[2025-12-23]
MIT's "PhysicsGen": Opening an Efficient Autonomous Path for Robot Training
Generative AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini rely on foundation models trained on vast data points to produce answers. Similarly, engineers hope to build foundation models to train robots in new skill...
[2025-12-22]
Constitutive Downregulation of Sorghum Liguleless Allele Improves Productivity and Water Use Efficiency
A study published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal provides new insights for optimizing sorghum canopy architecture. The research found that regulating sorghum leaf angles through bioengineering can...
[2025-12-22]
LLNL Leverages AI and Supercomputers to Accelerate Inertial Confinement Fusion Design
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved a milestone in integrating AI with fusion target design, automating and accelerating inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experi...
[2025-12-20]
Roman Space Telescope Team Installs Observatory's Solar Panels
From June 14 to 16, NASA technicians installed a critical component for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope—the solar panels collectively known as the "solar array sunshield." This step marks th...
[2025-12-20]