Pyrite, the yellow metal known as fool’s gold, has another trick up its sleeve: it can contain lithium, a crucial element in the world’s quest for greener energy, according to a team of researchers that studied rock deposits in the eastern United States.
The researchers examined 15 rock samples that...
Google kills products so frequently that you can't help but wonder where they're all coming from in the first place — the answer is death life by a thousand cuts, because the faucet of new services never really stops dripping. Speaking...
New chemistries for batteries, semiconductors and more could be easier to manufacture, thanks to a new approach to making chemically complex materials that researchers at the University of Michigan and Samsung's Advanced Materials Lab have demonstrated.
Their...
Apple is quickly moving ahead with its next-generation Apple Silicon plans. According to new reports this week, the first M4 Macs are expected as soon as later this year. Here’s what to expect.
M4 Macs: What we know...
A recently discovered, stable and highly conductive lithium-ion conductor in the form of a pyrochlore-type oxyfluoride has been found to address the need for non-sulphide solid electrolytes in solid-state batteries, offering higher conductivity and stability and paving the way for advanced all-solid-state...
This week in Las Vegas, 30,000 folks came together to hear the latest and greatest from Google Cloud. What they heard was all generative AI, all the time. Google Cloud is first and foremost a cloud infrastructure and platform vendor. If you didn’t know that, you might have missed it...
Researchers from Lehigh University have developed a material that demonstrates the potential for drastically increasing the efficiency of solar panels.
A prototype using the material as the active layer in a solar cell exhibits an average photovoltaic absorption of 80%, a high generation rate of photoexcited carriers, and an external...
Green Li-ion has launched a commercial-scale plant to process unsorted battery waste, or “black mass,” from used lithium-ion batteries.
Within an existing recycling facility in Atoka, Oklahoma, the plant will produce sustainable, battery-grade cathode precursor, lithium, and anode materials – closing the EV recycling loop with the production done all...
Although we do have alternatives like Microsoft Copilot and Google Bard, perhaps the first product that comes to mind when discussing conversational AI chatbots is ChatGPT. This is primarily due to the fact that the software was the first public application to take advantage of large language models (LLMs) on a global...
A 605 megawatt (MW) project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe’s largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot.
The Witznitz Solar Farm near Leipzig, which is not state-subsidized,...
