Physicists at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau have successfully used lasers to guide lightning over a Swiss mountain. The lasers create a pathway of low density, ionized air that the lightning can follow.
Tim Ferriss recently interviewed Stephen Wolfram on his podcast. I listened to the interview on the Christmas trip back to Ireland and found it fascinating. Stephen describes the work he and his company are doing in creating a new general model for Quantum Physics, which includes his new Ruliad computational space.
Researchers at University of California developed a new technique to break down 95% of PFAS "forever chemicals" in water using UV light and hydrogen gas.
Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed a sodium sulphur based battery that demonstrates four times the energy storage capacity compared to lithium based batteries.
The National Ignition Facility in California has made a nuclear fusion breakthrough to produce more energy output (3.15 MJ) in a fusion experiment than the amount of energy put in (2.05 MJ).
Physicists from the California Institute of Technology partnered with Google Quantum have successfully created a mathematically equivalent holographic quantum wormhole that can teleport a qubit through the wormhole.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo conducted experiments that show rats nodding their heads in sync with musical beats, marking the first innate time beat synchronisation has been observed in animals.
Visual Capitalist published an interesting article describing the evolution of vision, with a list of all the different types of biological vision systems.
Swiss research group NeuroRestore have proven that electrical stimulation and intense physical therapy can restore the ability to walk for patients with chronic spinal injuries.
Physicists from the University of Arkansas have demonstrated a circuit that captures the thermal motion of graphene to provide limitless, clean, low voltage power.