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Why It’s A Bad Idea To Let Your Phone Battery Run All The Way DownWhen flipping between phone and laptop, like this woman shown here, don't let the battery of either run so low it gets damaged.

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Why It’s A Bad Idea To Let Your Phone Battery Run All The Way DownWhen flipping between phone and laptop, like this woman shown here, don't let the battery of either run so low it gets damaged.
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Why It’s A Bad Idea To Let Your Phone Battery Run All The Way Down

clock-iconApril 1, 2025
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New Godzilla-Like Battery Runs On Radioactive WasteA photo of a canister of radioactive material on its side. The canister is black and ribbed, with a hazardous sign in the middle showing a radiation symbol.

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New Godzilla-Like Battery Runs On Radioactive WasteA photo of a canister of radioactive material on its side. The canister is black and ribbed, with a hazardous sign in the middle showing a radiation symbol.
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New Godzilla-Like Battery Runs On Radioactive Waste

clock-iconMarch 1, 2025
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Why Do The Batteries In Your Headphones Suck Now?researcher Yijin Liu holding a white wireless earbud

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Why Do The Batteries In Your Headphones Suck Now?researcher Yijin Liu holding a white wireless earbud
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Why Do The Batteries In Your Headphones Suck Now?

clock-iconFebruary 8, 2025
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World's First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery Offers Hope Of Power For Thousands Of YearsRadio luminescence produced by beta-emitting carbon-14 atoms in an artificial diamond film and captured by a low light intensity camera.

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World's First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery Offers Hope Of Power For Thousands Of YearsRadio luminescence produced by beta-emitting carbon-14 atoms in an artificial diamond film and captured by a low light intensity camera.
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World's First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery Offers Hope Of Power For Thousands Of Years

clock-iconDecember 5, 2024
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New Ion Speed Record Could Lead To Faster Charging BatteriesThe illustraion shows a road with red ions moving in a free lane and slower traffic of ions and blobs of water

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New Ion Speed Record Could Lead To Faster Charging BatteriesThe illustraion shows a road with red ions moving in a free lane and slower traffic of ions and blobs of water
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New Ion Speed Record Could Lead To Faster Charging Batteries

clock-iconNovember 20, 2024
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Why Your Batteries Die (Even The Rechargeable Ones)outline of battery in white on a mint green background; a rectangular wooden block with a black sad face is positioned at the end of the battery, suggesting low power

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Why Your Batteries Die (Even The Rechargeable Ones)outline of battery in white on a mint green background; a rectangular wooden block with a black sad face is positioned at the end of the battery, suggesting low power
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Why Your Batteries Die (Even The Rechargeable Ones)

clock-iconOctober 14, 2024
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A Californian Lake May Hold 3,400 Kilotons Of Lithium – But Can We Access It?Aerial View of a geothermal Energy Plant in the Imperial Valley of California near the Salton Sea.

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A Californian Lake May Hold 3,400 Kilotons Of Lithium – But Can We Access It?Aerial View of a geothermal Energy Plant in the Imperial Valley of California near the Salton Sea.
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A Californian Lake May Hold 3,400 Kilotons Of Lithium – But Can We Access It?

clock-iconOctober 14, 2024
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Leaky Hydrogen May Be Responsible For Your Cell Phone’s Declining Battery LifeGeneric Lithium Ion laptop battery

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Leaky Hydrogen May Be Responsible For Your Cell Phone’s Declining Battery LifeGeneric Lithium Ion laptop battery
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Leaky Hydrogen May Be Responsible For Your Cell Phone’s Declining Battery Life

clock-iconOctober 5, 2024
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Game-Changing "Dark Oxygen" Discovery On Seafloor Challenged In High-Stakes DebateThese metal blobs in the deep ocean may act like natural batteries.

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Game-Changing "Dark Oxygen" Discovery On Seafloor Challenged In High-Stakes DebateThese metal blobs in the deep ocean may act like natural batteries.
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Game-Changing "Dark Oxygen" Discovery On Seafloor Challenged In High-Stakes Debate

clock-iconSeptember 19, 2024
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Officials Issue Warning After Dog Sets House On Fire By Chewing On Power Bankclose-up of person holding two power banks in their hands

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Officials Issue Warning After Dog Sets House On Fire By Chewing On Power Bankclose-up of person holding two power banks in their hands
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Officials Issue Warning After Dog Sets House On Fire By Chewing On Power Bank

clock-iconAugust 7, 2024
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New Kind Of Cement Could Turn Homes And Roads Into Giant BatteriesI'm not 100% sure what this is, but it looks like electricity zipping through some of the cement.

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New Kind Of Cement Could Turn Homes And Roads Into Giant BatteriesI'm not 100% sure what this is, but it looks like electricity zipping through some of the cement.
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New Kind Of Cement Could Turn Homes And Roads Into Giant Batteries

clock-iconJune 15, 2024
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The Planet’s Largest Source Of Battery Metals Sits 4,000 Meters Beneath The Seaa coral attached to a manganese nodule

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The Planet’s Largest Source Of Battery Metals Sits 4,000 Meters Beneath The Seaa coral attached to a manganese nodule
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The Planet’s Largest Source Of Battery Metals Sits 4,000 Meters Beneath The Sea

clock-iconJune 12, 2024
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A Giant Untapped Source of Lithium Has Been Found Under PennsylvaniaA view of rock and forest in Pennsylvania.

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A Giant Untapped Source of Lithium Has Been Found Under PennsylvaniaA view of rock and forest in Pennsylvania.
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A Giant Untapped Source of Lithium Has Been Found Under Pennsylvania

clock-iconMay 27, 2024
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New Seabed Batteries Could Provide Cheaper Energy StorageBlue ocean and blue sky, wind turbines dotted on the horizon line, grass in the foreground

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New Seabed Batteries Could Provide Cheaper Energy StorageBlue ocean and blue sky, wind turbines dotted on the horizon line, grass in the foreground
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New Seabed Batteries Could Provide Cheaper Energy Storage

clock-iconMay 13, 2024
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World's Oldest Running Battery Has Been Chiming For Over 180 YearsThe Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and has rung almost continuously after that. It is located in the foyer of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford.

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World's Oldest Running Battery Has Been Chiming For Over 180 YearsThe Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and has rung almost continuously after that. It is located in the foyer of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford.
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World's Oldest Running Battery Has Been Chiming For Over 180 Years

clock-iconMay 11, 2024
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