Harsh chemicals, high heat and complex processing formats are currently required to recycle batteries. A great proportion of the electronic waste formed by end-of-life batteries ends up in landfills, ...

Why your phone charges quickly one day but slowly the next, or why electric cars still take an hour or more to charge, is a matter of how lithium ions move into a battery’s electrodes. Scientists ...

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According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

The concept of hydrogen fuel has existed for over a century, but the clean energy remains just out of our grasp. How is R&D advancing it in 2025? When will hydrogen fuel become a reality?

In the late 20th century, the Silicon Age transformed the world with the discovery and refinement of semiconductors that are ...

Stable borenium ions developed at MIT show promise for red to near-infrared imaging, with applications in tumor detection and advanced sensing technologies.

The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill accepts fracking waste. Some fear fracking contaminants like radium could end up in the ...

Every few weeks, it seems, yet another lab proclaims yet another breakthrough in the race to perfect solid-state batteries: ...

Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...