You might have heard the common claim that electric cars aren’t really green – that their lithium-ion batteries rely on “blood” minerals such as cobalt, mined in terrible conditions. The critique had ...

Scientists at HKUST have unveiled a major leap forward in calcium-ion battery technology, potentially opening the door to safer, more sustainable energy storage for everything from renewable power ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Zhao Bangchuan from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. Xiao Yao ...

This review asks whether graphene-based nanosensors could enhance energy efficiency in AI by integrating memory and computation for advanced information processing.

Mitochondrial diseases are severe, often untreatable, and they leave human cells unable to grow normally without outside help. A new study published in Nature Metabolism now shows that a single gene ...

Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have built a calcium-ion battery that retains roughly three ...

Ultimately, the gel-first hypothesis does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the origin of life. Rather, it offers a conceptual framework—one that integrates soft-matter physics, systems ...

The enzyme Na⁺-NQR is a sodium pump that drives the respiration of many marine and pathogenic bacteria. Using redox reactions ...

One idea keeps resurfacing. The world is not yet building a clean energy grid, not in the way that phrase tends to be used in public debate. What is being built is generation capacity. A substantial ...

Welcome to our live ASX coverage for Thursday, February 19. Expect a high volume of posts pre-market and more periodic updates throughout the day. We'll be wrapping the blog up around 2:00 pm AEST.

Plus: Sussan Ley’s political career draws to a close; US stocks lose steam, inflation eases in January; SpaceX mulls dual-class share structure for IPO.