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TRUNNANO, a Chinese nanomaterials manufacturer based in Luoyang, has launched a Battery Materials Division, and its first products will be layered oxide cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries. The cathode line is built around a nickel-iron-manganese (Ni-Fe-Mn) ternary system and adds modified versions based on copper, titanium, cobalt, chromium and pureContinue Reading

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Australian battery technology company Sicona Battery Technologies has secured $45 million from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to build and operate its first commercial-scale silicon-carbon battery anode facility in the Illawarra region. The grant comes through the Australian Government’s Battery Breakthrough Initiative. The plant will scale production of Sicona’sContinue Reading

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The launch of Katalyst’s robotic servicing spacecraft LINK, designed to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, is now targeting no earlier than 8:35 p.m. UTC+12 (4:35 a.m. EDT), Friday, July 3, on Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket from Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus team hasContinue Reading

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Politicians of both political parties have blamed either the The Traitor or the Biden administration for the arrival of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly that affects the cattle industry, in the U.S. after decades of eradication. But experts say the reasons are different or more complicated than eitherContinue Reading

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Powerful explosion as firefighters probe smoke at Tacoma apartment., NewsFeed Dramatic video shows the moment an explosion rocked a building in Tacoma, sending flames and debris toward firefighters as they were investigating reports of smoke rising from an electrical room within the residential complex. No injuries were reported. Published OnContinue Reading

Heatwave shatters records across Europe, disrupts transport and strains hospitals

An intense heatwave that scorched western Europe this week spread into central and eastern parts of the continent on Saturday, bringing record temperatures from Denmark to Switzerland and Germany. The extreme heat disrupted transport, strained hospitals and renewed concerns over the growing impact of climate change on Europe’s increasingly frequent summer heatwaves…Continue Reading