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Want Your Lithium Batteries To Last Longer? Try Stretching.

“USC researchers have applied fundamental mechanics to help increase battery storage capacity and lifespan. Batteries are widely used in everyday applications like powering electric vehicles, electronic gadgets and are promising candidates for sustainable energy storage. However, as you’ve likely …

Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor on path to plasma twice as hot as the Sun

“The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator is an experimental nuclear fusion reactor designed to bring us closer to the prospect of clean, limitless energy, and since producing its first plasma in 2015 we’ve seen it take steady and significant steps toward …

Western Digital Reimagines The Hard Drive

“At the company’s HDD Reimagine event today, Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) introduced a new flash-enhanced drive architecture that breaks traditional boundaries of storage. Building on the company’s unique ability to innovate with HDD and flash, the new …

Who can bend light for cheaper Internet?

“Wide Area Networks (WANs), the global backbones and workhorses of today’s Internet that connect billions of computers over continents and oceans, are the foundation of modern online services. As COVID-19 has placed a vital reliance on online services …

Windows 11 available on October 5

“Today, we are thrilled to announce Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded …

Analog Devices Completes Acquisition of Maxim Integrated

“Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) today announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM). The combination further strengthens ADI’s position as a high-performance analog semiconductor company with trailing twelve-month revenue of over …

ANU scientists set new record with bifacial solar cells

“Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have produced a more efficient type of solar cell, using laser processing and setting a new world record in the process. The solar cells are dual sided, meaning both the front and back …

BASE demonstrates two-trap cooling

“In a significant technological advance for antimatter research, the BASE (Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment) collaboration has used laser-cooled ions to cool a proton more quickly and to lower temperatures than is possible using existing methods. The new technique, which introduces …

Breakthrough in sizing nanoparticles using fluid-filled tubes

“The functionality of nanoparticles in a host of applications, including drug delivery and nano-optics, is often dictated by their mass and size. Measuring these properties simultaneously for the same nanoparticle has also been challenging. Now scientists from the University of …

Butterfly wings, breathing viruses, and breakthrough devices

“Science and technology are the cornerstones of developing solutions for modern world challenges, and deriving innovations that can improve the lives. In the last century, curiosity-driven research has brought about revolutionary transformations, such as the World Wide Web, which was …