Sodium Is Cheap, Abundant, and Now Powering Batteries That Could Rival Lithium

SingularityHub – Edd Gent • May 29, 2026 Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly gaining on lithium in consistency and fast charging. As demand for electric vehicles and grid storage surges, battery makers are searching for alternatives to lithium that are cheaper and easier to source. New research suggests sodium-ion batteries, which have long been heralded as

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 30)

SingularityHub – SingularityHub Staff • May 30, 2026 Artificial Intelligence In This Manhattan Lab, AI Designs Materials From ScratchAdele Peters | Fast Company “The lab uses standard materials science equipment, but it’s almost all automated and run by AI; if it has a new idea at 4am, it starts running again. It can run as

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What went right this week: life-changing inventions, plus more

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An AI Solution to an 80‑Year‑Old Problem Has Shocked Mathematicians

SingularityHub – Melissa Lee • May 28, 2026 AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary Hungarian

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Toxic Clumps in Huntington’s Disease May Protect the Brain Too

SingularityHub – Shelly Fan • June 5, 2026 The findings could lead to new treatments for multiple neurodegenerative diseases. Huntington’s disease is tragically predictable. An inherited genetic mutation causes neurons to make distorted, sticky proteins. These proteins clump together and gradually overwhelm brain cells. The brain loses its ability to learn, remember, and make decisions.

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