Materials
Northwestern University researchers jet-printed flexible artificial neurons that fire like real brain cells – realistic enough to trigger live mouse neurons – pointing toward neuromorphic chips that could one day cut the punishing energy cost of AI.
Researchers in Texas have created a graphene leaf tattoo that reads a plant’s moisture in real time and can act as an artificial synapse, raising the prospect of forests and fields that monitor fire and drought themselves.
Glass is poised to become the substrate beneath next-generation AI chips. Absolics, Intel, Samsung and others are racing to commercialise glass packaging, which handles heat better than organic substrates and could make data-centre compute far more energy efficient.
A Korean research team has turned industrial sulfur waste into recyclable, self-moving soft robots using a new 4D printing method, pointing to a closed-loop future for advanced materials.
Physicists at CERN are preparing to truck a trap of antiprotons around their campus in the first demonstration of a portable antimatter delivery service for laboratories across Europe.
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