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This super strong body battery is made with discarded Kevlar

“No other reported structural battery has been compared, in terms of energy density, with today’s modern advanced lithium batteries. We have improved our previous version of structural zinc batteries on 10 different measures, some of which are 100 times better, to make it happen, ‘he continued. In a study published …

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See a small robot powered by alcohol | Science

Yang and others., Science Robotics 2020 By Charlotte HartleyAugust 19, 2020, 2:00 p.m. Robots tend to be powered by batteries and plug sockets. But the RoBeetle is a little different. This insect-sized microtot (defined as less than 1 gram in weight) runs on methanol, a type of alcohol commonly found …

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Climate change: Sensible forecasts for global warming have been overestimated 50 years – study | Science | News

Research published in the journal Earth System Dynamics highlights differences between the most sensitive climate models and temperature observations since the 1970s. Scientists at the University of Exeter have studied data from complex climate models, comparing them with accounts of global warnings. Recent developments in climate models have raised forecasts …

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