🚨 China unveils a smaller, more powerful Carbon-14 nuclear battery Chinese researchers have developed a 2nd generation carbon-14 (¹⁴C) betavoltaic nuclear battery that delivers significantly higher power density while using much less radioactive material. The battery generates electricity from the natural radioactive decay of carbon-14, enabling continuous, maintenance-free power for ultra-low-power devices. Compared with the previous design, the new battery uses just 22% of the radioactive material, increases short circuit current by 2.5×, boosts maximum output power by 2.6×, shrinks the device to 17% of its original volume and achieves a 15.5× increase in volumetric power density. Acceleration is everywhere!

This seems big. "Scientists at ETH Zurich have achieved the world's first experimental demonstration of certified perfect randomness using quantum entanglement." "This is important because random numbers are the foundation of encryption, cybersecurity, banking systems, digital identities, and secure communications." "Using two superconducting quantum processors connected by a 30-meter cryogenic link, the researchers performed about 1.5 billion Bell tests and transformed weak randomness into randomness that can be mathematically certified by the laws of quantum physics." It's a landmark result that could help build the next generation of ultra secure cryptographic systems.