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How Do Lithium-Ion Batteries Work?
Lithium-ion batteries store and release energy by moving lithium ions between two electrodes through an electrolyte while electrons travel through the external circuit t…
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Flu epidemic
Bipolar ionization technology can destroy nCoV
The ions create a chemical reaction in the cell membrane that inactivates the virus, reducing it by 99.9% within minutes, according to Philip Tierno, a professor at New…
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China completes the world's largest ion trap quantum simulation
This is the largest quantum simulation or calculation performed to date, which is expected to pave the way for the birth of large-scale quantum computing.
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Injecting chemicals helps 'revive' old batteries
Scientists have developed a method that significantly restores a battery's original capacity after degradation due to many charge-discharge cycles.
Cancer
Chinese scientists develop hydrogel to help burn tumors in the body
Chinese scientists have developed a hydrogel that can offer dual effectiveness in the fight against cancer.
Space science
Water from Earth's atmosphere may have caused rain on the Moon
Over the past billions of years, Earth may have dumped about 3,500 cubic kilometers of water onto the Moon's poles.
Scientific application
Japan makes electronic chopsticks that make food 1.5 times more salty
Electronic chopsticks use a weak electric current, which does not affect the human body, to regulate sodium ions and alter the perception of taste.
New technology
Breakthrough technology that cleans water around the globe
The newly developed ultra-thin diaphragm membrane can completely separate harmful ions from water such as lead, mercury, thereby opening up the prospect of cleaning wate…
Space science
New research raises doubts about the formation of the Moon
After discovering the amount of carbon emissions emanating from all over the lunar surface, a new study could rewrite experts' knowledge of the lunar formation.
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Scientists have figured out the reason for the battery
Recently scientists from the US Department of Energy (DOE) believe they have discovered a mechanism that causes battery capacity to drop, even to prevent it.
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Why is the fireworks so gorgeous?
Fireworks have splendid colors including yellow, orange, green, blue, purple due to the glowing process of metal salts inside it.
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Detecting the role of Hydronium ions in the catalytic reaction of enzymes
Researchers work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which exploits neutrons, to first accurately assess the important role of hydronium ions in certain biological re…
1001 mystery
Find out the most strange cause of nature
A group of Australian scientists believe they have found the cause of one of the most bizarre phenomena of natural lightning (ball lightning).
Oceanography
Why is the sea salty?
Everyone knows the sea is salty because of the salt. But the salt come from? Almost every culture has a myth to explain the salty starfish. In the scientific sense, the…
Space science
Unexpected discovery: The solar wind winds oxygen on Earth to the moon
Japanese scientists have discovered that a large amount of oxygen ions of the Earth's atmosphere are being sucked into the Moon whenever the green planet is in the middl…