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Joby Aviation's aircraft

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Electric flying vehicle gets clearance for flight tests in the US

Joby Aviation's electric flying vehicle has received regulatory permission to begin test flights in the US, ahead of delivering the vehicle to the US Air Force next year

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Inside the gigafactory producing the greenest batteries in the world

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A breast cancer tumour in a mouse

Health

Cancer tumours in mice shrunk thanks to oxygen-sucking battery

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A car slowly driving over a battery

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Ultra-tough battery survives hammer blows and being run over by a car

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rippled graphene with dissociated hydrogen atoms on top

Chemistry

Graphene with ripples could help make better hydrogen fuel cells

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Beads of microplastic from a cosmetic facial scrub

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Microplastics can be recycled to make electrodes for lithium batteries

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Electric car charging

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Car batteries with tiny heaters could charge in just 11 minutes

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Seaweed washed up on a beach

Chemistry

Battery made using seaweed still works after charging 1000 times

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Aluminium-sulphur battery

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Fire-resistant aluminium-sulphur battery charges in under a minute

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Photograph of a stencil-printed two-cell paper battery with a design that spells the name of the authors' research institution (Empa). The battery is running a liquid crystal display alarm clock. Credit: Alexandre Poulin.

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Disposable paper battery is activated by a drop of tap water

Small and cheap batteries could enable a host of electronic devices such as parcel trackers, environmental monitors and sensors used in healthcare

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Chemistry

Tracing lithium's atomic signature could help make ethical batteries

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Gel-coated battery could stop mobile phones catching fire or exploding

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Batteries built with bumpy components work better in the freezing cold

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Device that stores liquid sunshine could one day power your phone

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