Analüüs: Teadus & Tehnoloogia – 01 August 2026 World-First All-Optical Photonic Time Crystal Topic: Science / Technology, Sources: ScienceDaily, Phys.org, Nature. Scientists from École Polytechnique, Collège de France and HZDR have experimentally realized the first all-optical photonic time crystal (PTC) using a plasmonic metamaterial. Intense, tunable terahertz pulses from the TELBE source periodically modulate the … Read more
Analüüs: Teadus & Tehnoloogia – 31 July 2026 Ultra-Strong Flexible Cobalt-Aluminum AlloyTopic: Science / Technology,Sources: ScienceDaily (Purdue University). Engineers at Purdue University have converted a brittle cobalt-aluminum intermetallic into a material with yield strength of 6 GPa—six to ten times that of high-strength structural steel—while retaining 15% plastic strain at room temperature. The nanoscale design … Read more
Analüüs: Teadus & Tehnoloogia – 30 July 2026 Muon g-2 Calculations Resolve Old Puzzle but Spark New ConflictsTopic: Science,Sources: Quanta Magazine. New lattice QCD calculations of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment (g-2) now match Fermilab’s precise experimental measurements to high accuracy, apparently closing a 25-year discrepancy that once hinted at unknown particles. The data-driven method, … Read more
Analüüs: Teadus & Tehnoloogia – 29 July 2026 Psyche Spacecraft Completes Mars Gravity AssistTopic: Space,Sources: ScienceDaily, NASA/JPL. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft successfully executed a Mars flyby on its trajectory to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, arriving in 2029. The gravity assist increased speed and refined the path while instruments—imager, magnetometer, and gamma-ray/neutron spectrometer—collected calibration data, detecting neutrons … Read more
Analüüs: Teadus & Tehnoloogia – 28 July 2026 Laser Enrichment Advances Nuclear Fuel Supply Topic: Energy Sources: MIT Technology Review Companies including Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) and LIS Technologies are advancing laser-based uranium enrichment, with GLE targeting reprocessing of legacy waste at Paducah, Kentucky, and LIS planning a facility in Oak Ridge. Lasers selectively excite … Read more
Analüüs: Teadus & Tehnoloogia – 27 July 2026 Gravity Alters Quantum Circuit Readings Near Black Holes Topic: Science Sources: Phys.org Researchers modeled a Josephson junction—a precise superconducting quantum device—held static outside a Schwarzschild black hole. Local quantum relations governing voltage, phase oscillation, and supercurrent remain unchanged, but a distant observer measures redshifted frequencies, voltages, and … Read more
What the arithmetic says about whether the AI buildout can ever pay for itself There is a number at the centre of the artificial-intelligence boom that almost no one says out loud, because once you write it down the whole thing starts to look strange. So let us write it down. The spending In 2026, … Read more