Scientists at Ohio State University have shown that the mycelium of cultivated shiitake and button mushrooms can act as computer memory with 90% to 95% accuracy. Bio-neutral circuitry, here we come!
Researchers at Cornell University have developed an analog microwave based neural network chip with low power usage (200 milliwatts) and 88% accuracy at classifying wireless signal types.
A project at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility in New Mexico is repurposing the solar power plant while it is inactive at night to use the panels to track asteroids in the night sky by measuring changes of light detected by the array at sub-milliHertz resolution.
The H2Mare project has launched a floating platform test that uses wind power and surrounding sea-power to create green hydrogen using electrolysis. The system also uses the hydrogen produced to create synthetic gasoline and diesel from CO2 pulled from the surrounding air.
University of Maryland spinout InventWood have developed a new treated wood that has 50% more tensile strength than steel and a strength to weight ratio that is 10 times better than steel. The company uses chemicals to change the molecular structure of the wood, and then increases the hydrogen bonds between cellulose molecules using compression.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology have developed a battery system using hollow concrete spheres that can be placed on the sea bed. Energy is stored by pumping the water out of a sphere to make it hollow. When water is released back into the sphere, energy is generated by a turbine as the water goes back in.
UK company Flint Engineering have developed a new efficient energy transfer mat based on heat pipe principles that can be used to distribute and remove heat evenly across a surface with negligable loss. The ISOMat has many applications, such as cooling EV batteries, making produce fridges 30% more energy efficient, and even as heating or cooling panels for buildings.
Alphabet's Taara division have downsized their internet using light transmission system into a new chip that can transmit internet at speeds of 10GBps over 1km.
Brazilian scientists have developed water-soluble glass microbeads that contain fertiliser nutrients that produce 70% more biomass growth over multiple harvests while reducing the amount of fertiliser used.
