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Built-in fire extinguishers can prevent battery explosions

Adding fire-suppressing chemicals into batteries can prevent overheating, fires and explosions, cutting the risks for electric vehicles and portable electronics

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2XTY93C Sparking Tesla Coil

Physics

Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static electricity works

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Physics

'Galloping' bubbles could act as tiny robotic vacuum cleaners

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Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

Technology

Electrodes made from bread could replace metal conductors

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Technology

Liquid metal particles can self-assemble into electronics

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Technology

Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shifting aircraft

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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2WG3YFC Titanium crater formed by a laser, SEM

Chemistry

Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot

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Physics

Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis

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E8X75D Image concept of magnetic levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen.

Physics

Why we are finally within reach of a room-temperature superconductor

A practical superconductor would transform the efficiency of electronics. After decades of hunting, several key breakthroughs are inching us very close to this coveted prize

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Environment

Carbon-negative cement can be made with a mineral that helps catch CO2

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Chemistry

Old milk can be used to extract gold and other metals from e-waste

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Chemistry

Layer of graphene could help protect statues and paintings from damage

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Life

Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

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