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Scientists Made Edison’s Old Battery Recharge in Seconds—and It Could Challenge Lithium-Ion for Grid Storage
49+ min ago (214+ words) The batteries last more than 12,000 charge cycles, meaning they could one day dethrone lithium-ion alternatives. “People often think of modern nanotechnology tools as complicated and high-tech, but our approach is surprisingly simple and straightforward,” said study coauthor Maher El-Kady, PhD,…...
A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (323+ words) A magnetized mix of oil, water, and nickel particles created a never-before-seen state. As Homer Simpson once famously phrased, “in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics,” but a completely unexpected discovery by a student at the University of…...
Scientists Found a Strange New Material Born in the Fireball of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (205+ words) Locked inside glassy fallout particles, the strange alloy could only form in a nuclear blast. When the B-29 bomber Enola Gay flew over Japan and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945, a blast force equal to…...
A Hairdresser Made a Revolutionary Heat-Proof Plastic. The Secret Formula Died With Him—Maybe.
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (449+ words) The material could withstand nuclear blasts, but hairdresser and amateur chemist Maurice Ward adamantly kept his formula close to the vest. “I really remember seeing Starlite on Tomorrow’s World,” University College London material scientist Mark Miodownik told the BBC in…...
Scientists Solved the 150 Year-Old Mystery of Why Most of Your Molecules Are Right-Handed
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (134+ words) The shape of life’s building blocks is the result of biology, chemistry, and quantum physics colliding. “This work provides a plausible and universal route for better understanding the origins of biomolecular homochirality and the specific handedness of chiral molecules in…...
Chemists Discovered a Brand New Kind of Chemical Reaction
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (255+ words) The reaction can form and break apart ultra-strong sulfur-sulfur bonds within seconds, which could have major implications in multiple fields. “We were also able to make analogs of polyethylene that can be made, used, and then un-made so the plastic…...
This Mysterious Process Sucks Electricity Directly From Its Environment
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (28+ words) The international research team was experimenting with bismuth telluride, a popular semiconductor for power generation. The substance is composed of bismuth—a metal used in cosmetics and some......
This Breakthrough ‘Spiking’ Battery Can Pump Out Lightning-Fast Bursts of Energy
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (368+ words) It fills a troubling gap in keeping our future power grids flowing, scientists say. When cloud cover parks itself over a solar farm or an AI data center receives a sudden surge in computing requests, the grid has seconds—or…...
The Next ‘Forever Chemical’ May Already Be in the Air. Scientists Still Don’t Understand What It Could Do.
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (520+ words) They weren’t even looking for it—it showed up while tracking how pollution forms. One of the downsides of modern life is the proliferation of chemicals in the natural environment. Arguably the most well-known of these chemical culprits are per…...
Scientists Built a Bizarre New Atom That Isn’t Supposed to Work Like... That
8+ mon, 4+ day ago (28+ words) Atoms that occur in nature interact with the electromagnetic field at a single point, allowing scientists to make certain assumptions about energy levels with point-like references. However,......