Future News: 10 August 2025 - 15 August 2025

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

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 (Damp-Heat). Japan is subsidizing Sekisui Chemical to build a 100 MW film-type perovskite plant by 2027 to help reach about
August 15, 2025
The Long-Range IoT Revolution: How 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 and sensors were connected globally as of mid-2024, with projections to exceed 3.5 billion by 2030. The LoRa Alliance was founded in 2015, LoRaWAN was officially approved as a global ITU standard in late 2021, and the
August 15, 2025
The Enzyme Revolution: How Engineering Nature’s Catalysts is Transforming Medicine, Food & the Planet
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The Enzyme Revolution: How Engineering Nature’s Catalysts is Transforming Medicine, Food & the Planet

The global market for industrial enzymes was about $9 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $13.8 billion by 2027. Site-directed mutagenesis, invented in the 1970s by Michael Smith, enables precise single-amino-acid changes in enzymes and earned him the 1993 Nobel
August 14, 2025
No-Code AI Revolution: How Non-Techies Are Building Machine Learning Models

No-Code AI Revolution: How Non-Techies Are Building Machine Learning Models

No-code machine learning enables non-technical users to build, train, and deploy ML models through visual interfaces, creating a new class of citizen data scientists. Leading platforms—Google Cloud AutoML (Vertex AI), Microsoft Azure ML, DataRobot, Akkio, Obviously AI, and Amazon SageMaker Canvas—automate data
August 10, 2025
Vertical Solar Farms: How Bifacial Panels Are Revolutionizing Solar Energy in 2025

Vertical Solar Farms: How Bifacial Panels Are Revolutionizing Solar Energy in 2025

Vertical solar farms mount panels upright at 90° in north–south rows, using bifacial panels to harvest morning east light and afternoon west light for two daily power peaks. The Ashikaga City rice paddy project in Japan was installed in May 2024, yielded
August 10, 2025