In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...

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Caltech University's Professor Karthish Manthiram won the Infosys Prize 2025 in Physical Sciences for his breakthroughs in ...

As concerns over global warming force a shift to battery technologies, a new class of critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earths has taken center stage. For West Africa, historically ...

This schematic illustrates how trace W⁶⁺ dopants occupying tetrahedral sites in lithium-rich layered oxides generate long-range Coulomb repulsion that suppresses transition-metal migration and oxygen ...

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China is canceling old lithium mining licenses, mostly for non-operational mines. Chinese lithium prices spiked on the news, pushing lithium stocks higher today. The Bureau of Natural Resources in ...

Researchers create cobalt single-atom catalysts in porous carbon nanofibers to speed redox reactions and stop polysulfide loss, improving lithium sulfur battery performance. (Nanowerk News) ...

AI is helping scientists crack the code on next-gen batteries that could replace lithium-ion tech. By discovering novel porous materials, researchers may have paved the way for more powerful and ...

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JOAQUIN, Texas — A new era of industry is beginning in Shelby County as Select Water Solutions and Mariana Minerals broke ground this week on a lithium extraction facility in Joaquin. The project, the ...

Lithium Americas Corp. saw its stock surge recently after the federal government took a stake in the company, but J.P. Morgan warns that investors should not get carried away with the the lithium ...