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7th October 2025

New efficiency record for perovskite solar cell

Researchers have achieved a record-breaking 27.06% efficiency with a new triple-junction perovskite solar cell. This marks a significant advance towards low-cost, stable solar devices that capture more of the Sun's energy than silicon alone.

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30th September 2025

Caltech builds record-breaking 6,100-qubit array

Researchers have assembled the world's largest array of atomic qubits – 6,100 in total. Although the system is not yet a fully programmable quantum computer, the proof-of-concept shows what might be possible in the next year or two.

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30th September 2025

DNA data storage could arrive within 3–5 years

An international consortium says DNA could soon become a practical medium for digital archives. A new report points to the first use cases emerging in just 3–5 years, with densities up to 500 million times greater than conventional drives.

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27th September 2025

Underground carbon storage can only cut warming by 0.7 °C

Safe and practical geologic storage of CO2 emissions is far more limited than once believed, with global reserves capped at 1,460 gigatonnes. Many scenarios could exhaust this by 2100 and virtually all by 2200.

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18th September 2025

Scientists build motors narrower than a human hair

Researchers in Sweden have built laser-driven gears just 16 micrometres wide – about a tenth the width of a human hair – paving the way for medical tools that operate at the scale of individual cells.

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6th August 2025

New 2D material outperforms future silicon chips

Chinese researchers have developed the first wafer-scale, 2D indium selenide semiconductors. The resulting transistors already outperform silicon's projected performance for 2037, marking a potentially major step toward next-generation chips.

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5th August 2025

Miniature neutrino detector confirms 50-year-old theory

Neutrino interactions have been observed at a nuclear power plant, using a device weighing just 3 kg – orders of magnitude smaller than typical neutrino detectors.

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24th July 2025

New hope for solving marine plastic waste

A new bioplastic, LAHB, is shown to biodegrade under deep-sea conditions, losing over 80% of its mass after 13 months at a depth of 855 m (2,800 ft), while conventional PLA remains intact.

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26th June 2025

Optical chip achieves 100-way parallel processing

A potentially revolutionary new processor uses light instead of electricity to do 100 calculations simultaneously, pointing the way to a future beyond the limits of Moore's Law.

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17th May 2025

Large Hadron Collider turns lead into gold

Using the ALICE experiment at CERN, scientists have produced gold from lead in quantities far exceeding those of earlier attempts.

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22nd April 2025

Laser-cooled chips could transform data centre efficiency

A new laser-based photonic cooling system could reduce the energy needed for cooling in data centres, while improving the performance of computer chips.

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7th April 2025

"Big Crunch" universe more likely than previously thought

A major survey of nearly 15 million galaxies suggests that dark energy might be weakening, potentially changing the ultimate fate of the cosmos and increasing the possibility of a "Big Crunch" in the distant future.

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31st March 2025

Climate feedback loops could push warming to 7°C by 2200

Even under moderate emissions, global warming could reach up to 7°C by 2200, due to underestimated climate and carbon cycle feedbacks.

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