An Australian spin-out has won A$15m of public money to scale a ceramic tube electrolyser that runs on industrial steam. The efficiency gain is real and measured, but the demonstration is still only a few hundred kilowatts.
Three people with drug-resistant epilepsy had seizures fall by an average of 92.6% after a virus made their neurons sensitive to a pill. One patient stopped taking the pill, and the seizures came back.
A Chinese team has turned a translation error that happens mostly in tumour cells into an on switch for a self-destruct gene. It cleared tumours in mice, spared healthy tissue and already has a patent application pending.
Seoul Viosys says it is mass producing white light from gallium nitride alone, with no rare earth phosphor and no package, in chips as small as 10 micrometres. The claim is the company’s own, and the brightness per chip is tiny.
A Caltech payload funded by DARPA has autonomously assembled a section of truss in low Earth orbit. It finished one bay, not an antenna, but the method could change how large space structures are bought.
A 5MW system mixing alkaline and PEM electrolysers has won Chinese state recognition after field trials in Ningxia. The engineering targets fluctuating renewables, but the efficiency and cost data remain the developers’ own.
Chinese and German chemists converted polyethylene into liquid hydrocarbons with a cheap iron catalyst and scaled the batch to a kilogram. The chemistry is promising; real mixed waste and industrial economics are untested.
