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July 15th 2025
Max Gray
July 15, 2025
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July 15th 2025
💻 Technology
🇹🇼 Taiwanese engineers create SSD with physical self-destruct to protect critical data in emergencies
Taiwan’s TeamGroup has developed the P250Q-M80, an industrial-grade SSD featuring a built-in self-destruct function that irreversibly destroys its memory chips with a high-voltage surge. Designed for defense, AI, crypto, and high-risk industries, the SSD offers both software and hardware data-wipe options, including a manual red button that physically fries the NAND flash. Unveiled at Computex 2025 and awarded in the cybersecurity category, the SSD combines top-tier performance with military-grade resilience, making it ideal for scenarios requiring absolute data confidentiality.
⚡️ Energy
🇨🇳 Chinese engineers unveil world’s largest floating wind turbine to harness deep-sea typhoon energy
China has introduced a 17-megawatt floating wind turbine, currently the world’s most powerful of its kind, designed to operate in deep-sea environments with typhoon-level winds and 78-foot waves. Developed by China Huaneng Group and Dongfang Electric Corporation, the turbine features a rotor spanning 262 meters and produces enough energy for 40,000 households annually. Fully built with domestic components, this innovation marks a major advance in offshore wind technology and could unlock vast deep-sea renewable energy potential.
🚀 Space
The Italian Space Agency, alongside three universities, is developing a compact, high-protein rice plant tailored for space missions through the Moon-Rice project. Designed to thrive in microgravity and fit within tight space constraints, these 10 cm-tall rice plants aim to deliver fresh, nutritious food to astronauts on long-duration lunar or Martian missions. Beyond space, this innovation could benefit farming in extreme Earth environments by enabling resilient, high-yield crops in confined or harsh conditions.
🦾 Robotics
MIT scientists have created a bionic leg that connects directly to the thigh bone and surrounding muscles, enabling users to move naturally and feel the prosthetic as part of their body. Combining a titanium implant with AMI surgery, a method that reconnects muscle pairs and nerves, the leg captures real-time muscle signals to control movement with high agility and stability.
🌎 Sustainability
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified human gut bacteria capable of absorbing and safely excreting PFAS chemicals - harmful substances known for their persistence in the body and environment. In mouse models, these bacteria removed up to 74% of PFAS from the body by clumping and expelling them through feces, without affecting bacterial growth. Published in Nature Microbiology, this breakthrough could lead to targeted probiotics that reduce PFAS buildup in humans.
💊 Healthcare
Researchers at the University of South Australia have created a weekly injectable version of levodopa-carbidopa, the gold-standard Parkinson’s treatment, using a biodegradable polymer formulation that slowly releases the drugs over seven days. This innovation addresses challenges such as swallowing difficulties, inconsistent symptom control, and medication noncompliance by eliminating the need for multiple daily pills. Published in Drug Delivery and Translational Research, the injection could reduce the “on-off” symptom fluctuations common in Parkinson’s therapy and significantly improve patients’ quality of life.
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