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Ten Nanometers That Keep the Battery in Check
A calcium sodium phosphate layer just ten nanometers thick stopped O3 sodium cathode cracking — smooth surface after 300 cycles. Cheap compounds instead of exotic materials.
Why the photon computer did not work for 30 years
Physics has worked since 1990 - engineering has failed. Three walls: crosstalk, thermal noise and a jump from 56 optical components to thousands. Why photonics is still on the laboratory bench.
A hand that remembers touch
An $80,000 prosthesis crushes a plastic cup because it can't feel. The Johns Hopkins team built a hybrid hand — neither soft nor stiff — that recognizes touch and texture.
Custom enzyme. From the Nobel Prize to atomic precision
David Baker won the Nobel Prize for protein design. Three months later, his team showed that they could design the enzyme atom by atom — without imitating nature. And Poland still does not have a bridge between the computational laboratory and the wet laboratory.
A cable that can be injected. Algae electronics will replace surgical implants
PEDOT:PSS clumps on contact with water and the body is 60% water. Electronics on an algae skeleton can be injected through a needle - without surgery, scars and three hours on the table.
A cable that grows. Why the future of neuroimplants is not made of metal
Biohybrid and living neural interfaces - from biomimetic polymers to axons replacing cables. Review of Flavi Vitale's research in Nature Communications and the Polish neurotechnology ecosystem.
37 billion tons of raw material. Why we still don't make fuel from CO2
Hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol has been operating in the laboratory for forty years, and it still does not work on a scale that is meaningful. A review in Science breaks down what exactly is blocking this wheel.
A battery that falls from a tree. How a dead leaf will power the Internet of Things
Of the two hundred sensors in the Oregon forests, seventeen are working - the batteries died after eight months. A dead leaf coated with a gel polymer is expected to power some of the 29 billion IoT devices.
Three layers, 99 percent. A prosthesis that feels like a human hand
A team from Johns Hopkins created a prosthetic hand with a three-layer touch sensor. 99.69% object classification accuracy. 40,000 Polish patients are waiting for access to this technology. Science Advances 2025.
A computer that shouldn't work
In November 2023, Andrew King, a forty-something physicist employed at Canadian D-Wave Systems, closed the door of a conference room in Burnaby behind him.
Photon cloning finally works. 30× faster than a year ago
Indistinguishable photons in the 1550 nm telecommunications band, 30 times faster than a year earlier. The result of Paweł Holewa's team in Nature Communications shifts the question from "if" to "when".
The Trillion Dollar Promise. Why green hydrogen still hasn't taken off - and what does it mean for Poland
Analysis by Odenweller and Ueckerdt (Nature Energy, 2025): of the 190 GW of electrolysers needed, less than 10% were created. Poland - the third producer of gray hydrogen in the EU - does not have a single project after the final investment decision.