Ion man: Meet Ankur Gupta, the math whiz redefining how energy is stored

His research will make it possible to charge a phone in seconds. How did he break new ground, in a field so full of well-funded research?

Science is a bit like a giant jigsaw puzzle, isn’t it? The corners have been in place for centuries. Most of the edges have taken shape. This framework supports a dynamic state of play in which reality as we know it is constantly being tinkered with, altered, re-imagined.

Such tinkering has given us rocket ships, MRIs, the internet and AI. As we fit pieces together in new ways, we change our world.

But what happens if we take the puzzle