Innovation News: 15 August 2025 - 19 August 2025

Pig Neurons in Human Brains? The 2025 Reality Check on Neuron Xenotransplantation—Breakthroughs, Risks, and What Happens Next
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Pig Neurons in Human Brains? The 2025 Reality Check on Neuron Xenotransplantation—Breakthroughs, Risks, and What Happens Next

What exactly is neuron xenotransplantation? Neuron xenotransplantation is the transplantation of neurons or their precursors between species, most realistically from genetically engineered pigs to human patients. It’s distinct from allografts (human‑to‑human) and from organoid research that places human cells into animals for
August 18, 2025
IBM’s 4,000-Qubit Quantum Supercomputer Could Change Computing Foreve
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IBM’s 4,000-Qubit Quantum Supercomputer Could Change Computing Foreve

IBM plans a 4,000+ qubit quantum supercomputer by 2025, achieved by interconnecting three 1,386-qubit Kookaburra chips to form a 4,158-qubit system. The Quantum System Two modular platform, debuted in 2023, is designed to host multiple chips and features a cryogenic refrigerator and
August 17, 2025
Deep-Water Wind Revolution: Floating Turbines Set to Transform Offshore Energy
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Deep-Water Wind Revolution: Floating Turbines Set to Transform Offshore Energy

Floating wind turbines are offshore wind generators mounted on buoyant platforms tethered to the seabed with mooring lines, allowing deployment in waters far deeper than 60 meters where fixed-bottom foundations aren’t feasible. About 80% of the world’s offshore wind potential lies in
August 16, 2025
Satellites Powered by Water? The Revolutionary Propellant Changing Spaceflight
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Satellites Powered by Water? The Revolutionary Propellant Changing Spaceflight

Water propulsion for satellites can use steam propulsion (resistojet), electrolysis to hydrogen and oxygen for combustion, or water-plasma/ion thrusters for high-ISP propulsion. Momentus Space’s Vigoride uses a Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) that microwaves water with solar power to boil it into plasma
August 16, 2025
Perovskite Solar ‘Stickers’ Are Almost Here: How Flexible Laminates Could Turn Walls, Cars & Roofs into Power Plants
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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
Ceramic 3D Printing Revolution: How Technical Ceramics Are Being Transformed by Additive Manufacturing
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Ceramic 3D Printing Revolution: How Technical Ceramics Are Being Transformed by Additive Manufacturing

Ceramic additive manufacturing is largely an indirect process where a printed green part is debinded and sintered, resulting in about 15–20% linear shrinkage (and up to 15–30% by volume). Binder Jetting can produce relatively large ceramic parts quickly, but post-sintering parts typically
August 15, 2025
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