Mateusz Brzeziński

artificial intelligence predictive maintenance

AI Maintenance Is Quietly Saving Trillions: Guide to Predictive & Prescriptive Maintenance – What It Is, Who’s Winning, and How to Start

Siemens launched an Industrial Copilot for maintenance, integrating Senseye analytics and Azure. IBM added AI agents to Maximo. Studies show AI-based maintenance can cut downtime by up to 45% and reduce costs by 25–35%. Ford is deploying AI vision at scale to prevent rework and recalls.
August 17, 2025
Inside the Race to Scout and Mine Space’s Richest Rocks

Asteroid Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Scout and Mine Space’s Richest Rocks

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returned 250 grams of carbon- and water-bearing soil from Bennu in September 2023. The Psyche probe launched in October 2023 to a metal-rich asteroid valued at $10 quadrillion, with arrival set for 2029. China’s Tianwen-2 will attempt a sample return from Kamoʻoalewa by 2027. Private ventures and international agreements are shaping the future of asteroid resource extraction.
August 16, 2025
Deep-Water Wind - Floating Turbines

Deep-Water Wind Revolution: Floating Turbines Set to Transform Offshore Energy

Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating wind farm, began operation in 2017 with five spar-buoy turbines totaling 30 MW and a 54% capacity factor. By mid-2025, global floating wind capacity reached about 200–250 MW, with Europe accounting for 208 MW by late 2023. Industry forecasts expect 6–7 GW operational worldwide by 2030. Current costs exceed $200/MWh but are projected to drop sharply by 2050.
August 16, 2025
Satellites Powered by Water

Satellites Powered by Water? The Revolutionary Propellant Changing Spaceflight

Momentus Space’s Vigoride-5 raised its orbit by 3 km in January 2023 using a microwave electrothermal thruster powered by water. HawkEye 360 and Capella Space began commercial use of water thrusters in 2018, with BlackSky Gen-2 joining by 2024. ArianeGroup plans a dual-mode water engine demo in 2026. Pale Blue’s water ion thrusters launched in 2024, with further tests set for 2025.
August 16, 2025
Aluminum and Sulfur Batteries

Move Over Lithium: Aluminum and Sulfur Batteries Are Sparking an Energy Revolution

A January 2024 study in Nature Communications reported an aluminum–sulfur battery retaining 85.4% capacity after 1,400 cycles at 85°C. In October 2024, Lyten announced plans for a Li–S battery gigafactory in Nevada. Aluminum-air batteries demonstrated a 1,100-mile range in a 2014 Phinergy car. Li–S cells have reached energy densities up to 500 Wh/kg in labs.
August 16, 2025
Bottling Power in CO₂ - Compressed Carbon Dioxide Could Revolutionize Energy Storage

Bottling Power in CO₂: How Compressed Carbon Dioxide Could Revolutionize Energy Storage

A CO₂ Battery stores surplus electricity by compressing and liquefying CO₂, then recovers power by reversing the process through turbines. The system delivers 66.7 kWh per cubic meter, uses standard industrial parts, and avoids lithium or rare metals. Energy Dome’s Sardinia pilot began in 2022; commercial units are planned in Italy, Wisconsin, and India. Google has partnered to expand global deployment, including in Oman.
August 16, 2025
active vibration isolator

Silencing the Shake: How Dynamic Adaptive Vibration Isolators Are Revolutionizing Vibration Control

A KAIST team in 2023 unveiled an origami-based adaptive vibration isolator that reconfigures stiffness using a Yoshimura-pattern tube. Hybrid systems combining passive and active methods have achieved up to 90% vibration reduction, shifting resonant frequencies from 31 Hz to 13 Hz. NASA used six passive isolators to support the James Webb Space Telescope testing chamber, each bearing 10,000 lbs.
August 16, 2025
Perovskite - flexible solar cells

Perovskite Solar ‘Stickers’ Are Almost Here: How Flexible Laminates Could Turn Walls, Cars & Roofs into Power Plants

A flexible perovskite module with WVTR ≈ 5.0 × 10⁻³ g/m²/day retained 84% of its power after 2,000 hours at 85°C/85% RH. Japan is subsidizing Sekisui Chemical to build a 100 MW film-type perovskite plant by 2027. A Chinese startup unveiled a 1.2 m × 1.6 m flexible module rated 260–300 W and weighing 2.04 kg. Several manufacturers have passed IEC reliability tests for flexible perovskite modules.
August 15, 2025
Ceramic 3D Printing

Ceramic 3D Printing Revolution: How Technical Ceramics Are Being Transformed by Additive Manufacturing

Honeywell Aerospace used 3D printed ceramic molds in May 2024 to cut turbine blade development from up to two years to eight weeks. Ceramic stereolithography and material extrusion can achieve near-full density after sintering, while binder jetting leaves up to 30% porosity. In 2024, SINTX and Prodways agreed to supply alumina, zirconia, and silica ceramics for aerospace. 3DCeram launched the AI-driven CERIA process control system in 2025.
August 15, 2025
Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants Are Finally Real—Here’s the Science, Safety, and Shopping Guide (2025 Deep‑Dive)

Light Bio’s Firefly Petunia, the first consumer self-glowing plant, emits a dim green light using a four-enzyme fungal pathway. USDA cleared it in September 2023 as not regulated; a 2024 court ruling did not affect this status. Priced at $29, it ships in batches to the contiguous U.S., with no seeds or propagation allowed. Lab tests in 2024–2025 boosted brightness up to 100-fold in experimental lines.
August 15, 2025
Synthetic Pheromones Are Quietly Replacing Pesticides in Your Food

Bug Love vs. Bugs: How Synthetic Pheromones Are Quietly Replacing Pesticides in Your Food—What You Need to Know in 2025

FMC launched Sofero™ Fall pheromone for fall armyworm in Brazil, while Provivi is rolling out Pherogen™ for the same pest in Australia. Bayer expanded its global pheromone partnership with M2i Group. The EU’s new microplastics rule will ban non-degradable microcapsules in plant-protection products after October 17, 2031, speeding adoption of biodegradable carriers. EPA and EU regulators classify these pheromones as low risk.
August 15, 2025
Smart Fabrics with Sensors

Smart Fabrics with Sensors: The Wearable Tech Revolution You Didn’t See Coming

The global smart fabrics market reached $6–8 billion in 2024, with defense accounting for 29% of revenue. Recent products include Google’s touch-sensitive Jacquard jacket, Cornell’s exercise-tracking SeamFit shirt, and Cambridge’s AI sleepwear. The U.S. intelligence community’s SMART ePANTS program received $22 million in 2023. Sports and fitness is the fastest-growing sector, expanding at about 35% annually.
August 15, 2025
LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms

The Long-Range IoT Revolution: How LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms

Over 350 million LoRaWAN devices were connected worldwide by mid-2024, with forecasts topping 3.5 billion by 2030. Montevideo deployed 70,000 LoRaWAN streetlights to cut energy use by up to 80%. LoRaWAN supports long-range, low-power sensors in cities and farms, and by 2024, at least three firms offered LoRaWAN-from-space via satellite gateways. The ecosystem includes over 500 member companies.
August 15, 2025
The Holographic Screens

Forget 3D Glasses: The Holographic Screens Coming to Your Desk, Dashboard, and Doctor’s Office (2025 Mega‑Guide)

Stanford and Meta in 2025 unveiled a 3 mm holographic display using a waveguide and SLM for wide field of view. Samsung launched the Odyssey 3D, a 27-inch glasses-free 3D monitor with eye tracking. Light Field Lab demonstrated SolidLight holographic walls at 10 billion pixels per square meter. Envisics GEN-2 AR HUDs will enter GM’s 2026 Cadillac lineup.
August 15, 2025
Asteroid Mining

The New Gold Rush: How Asteroid Mining Could Create Trillionaires and Change Earth’s Future (2025 Update)

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returned 250 grams of Bennu material in 2023, revealing water-rich clays and organics. The DART mission altered Dimorphos’s orbit by 32 minutes in 2022. Psyche launched in 2023 to a metal-rich asteroid valued at $10,000 quadrillion, with arrival set for 2026. China’s Tianwen-2 and AstroForge’s Odin and Vestri missions target asteroid sample return and mining by 2027.
August 14, 2025
How Engineering Nature’s Catalysts is Transforming Medicine, Food & the Planet

The Enzyme Revolution: How Engineering Nature’s Catalysts is Transforming Medicine, Food & the Planet

The global industrial enzyme market was valued at $9 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $13.8 billion by 2027. Advances include the 2022 development of FAST-PETase, a machine-learning-designed enzyme that breaks down plastic waste in 24 hours, and a 2024 report of a highly evolved CRISPR-Cas enzyme variant with low off-target activity.
August 14, 2025
Laser Reflectors are Revolutionizing Satellite Communications

How Laser Reflectors are Revolutionizing Satellite Communications

NASA’s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration in 2013 achieved 622 Mb/s downlink from lunar orbit. In June 2023, MIT’s TBIRD CubeSat set a record with a 4.8 TB transfer in five minutes. By 2024, Europe’s SpaceDataHighway logged over 80,000 laser links and 2.5 petabytes downloaded. In December 2023, NASA linked the ISS to its LCRD optical relay, completing a two-way laser relay.
August 14, 2025
Retrieval-Augmented Generation - RAG

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): The Search‑Enhanced AI Revolution in Chatbots and Enterprise Applications

RAG, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation, combines large language models with search engines or databases to provide up-to-date, source-backed answers. By 2025, major tech firms including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon offer RAG solutions. Systems like Mayo Clinic’s AI assistant use RAG to link GPT-based dialogue with current medical literature and patient data. RAG enables fresh responses without full retraining by querying external data at answer time.
August 13, 2025
The Future of Artificial Blood, Organs, and Tissues - Breakthroughs and the Road to Transplantation

In late 2022, UK researchers transfused lab-grown red blood cells into humans for the first time. The cost per unit dropped below $5,000 but remains higher than donated blood. In December 2024, the FDA approved Humacyte’s lab-grown blood vessel graft for trauma repair. Over 100,000 people in the U.S. await organ transplants; nearly 20 die daily.
August 13, 2025