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You know how EVs and practically anything else that runs on lithium batteries aren’t really all that ‘green’ because producing lithium takes a huge toll on the planet?Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, ScienceTags: Lithium metal, Mining, Metals Continue reading Stanford breakthrough promises 50% cheaper, cleaner lithium extraction
Metalworking usually requires very high heat and pressure, but scientists in Singapore have now demonstrated a way to make very pure metal structures at room temperature. It’s inspired by the exoskeletons of crabs and insects.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Room temperature metalworking inspired by insects and crab shells
While titanium hip and knee implants do restore mobility to a great many people, they’re still subject to failure. A new alloy could help change that, simply by adding a smidge of bendy, bacteria-killing gallium to the mix.Continue ReadingCategory: Med… Continue reading A dash of gallium may make for stabler hip and knee implants
It’s estimated that, in the US, between 52% and 82% of people who menstruate use tampons. To avoid health risks, especially given the high potential for vaginal absorption, it’s imperative that any harmful chemicals present in tampons are identified.Co… Continue reading Toxic arsenic and lead found to be common in tampons
For the first time, a large team of scientists from across North America has formed a clear picture of Alaska’s ‘rusting’ rivers and streams, closely tracking 75 areas in the remote Brooks Range that are flushed with the bizarre hue so bright it’s even… Continue reading Alaska’s technicolor rivers are rapidly spreading – and we now know why
A striking new study led by researchers from the University of Nebraska has found unusually high levels of lead and uranium in urine samples from teenagers who frequently use e-cigarettes. But several scientists, while careful to say not vaping is stil… Continue reading Uranium and lead vaping study instead reveals pitfall of flimsy research
In a few billion years the Sun will destroy the solar system’s inner planets – and if it’s lucky it might get a big cool scar to brag about. That’s what happened to a white dwarf that astronomers have just found, which seems to have a bizarre metal sca… Continue reading Metal scar found on world-destroying star after its reign of terror
Small Modular Reactor (SMR) construction shifts into high gear, as UK company Sheffield Forgemasters welds a full-size nuclear reactor vessel in under 24 hours instead of the usual 12 months. The rollout of this game-changing tech could be massive.Cont… Continue reading Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year’s work now takes a day
Among the more than 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) of cargo that blasted off from Cape Canaveral on the 30th of January, bound for the International Space Station, were two firsts: the world’s first metal 3D printer designed especially for use in orbit and the fi… Continue reading Space firsts: Metal 3D printer & surgical robot on their way to the ISS
The intensely hot interior of planets isn’t somewhere you’d expect to find snow, but scientists do suspect that “iron snow” falls on the Earth’s core. Now, a new study has modeled the dynamics in the lab and found that iron snow could make magnetic fie… Continue reading “Iron snow” falling in the core gives planets wavering magnetic fields