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Technology

Salt batteries are about to shake up EVs and grid storage

Today, most rechargeable batteries are made from lithium ions, but sodium-ion alternatives could make battery tech much cheaper and offer other advantages

News

Comment

Musical take on The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is moving and charming

Culture

Environment

Can home batteries help save the climate and save you money?

News

Environment

Solar farm on the ocean outperforms land-based solar in Taiwan

News

Space

The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology

Comment

Dust rising from combine during crop harvesting, no-till technology professional occupation.

Environment

The Iran war is exposing the huge risks in our food system

Leader

Environment

Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?

News

Space

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

Features

Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of a neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binary merger, showing the disruption of the neutron star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University).

Space

A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

Features

Space

Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

This is a 91av special package about shock results that have upended cosmology. What do they mean for our models of the universe, and what are the alternative explanations?

Features

Environment

Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance?

Analysis

Mind

It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day

Features

Environment

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables

News

Environment

Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs

News