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Environment
Transition to electric vehicles could create unwanted air pollution hotspots in China and India
Credit: Princeton University, Bumper DeJesus Electric vehicles are a cornerstone of the global energy transition, but a new Princeton University-led study finds that refining critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could create pollution hotspots near manufacturing sites. It has been proven that there is. Researchers focused on China and India and found that if these countries fully domesticated their…
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Biology
Full moon danger: 50% more collisions with wildlife vehicles on moonlit nights
A new Texas A&M study found that wildlife-vehicle collisions increase by 45.8% during full moons. Credit: Rachel Barton and Tanner Konarik/Texas A&M Engineering The moon’s influence on our planet, culture, and society goes beyond influencing the tides. A recent study by Texas A&M University published in the journal Transportation Research Part D shows that collisions with wildlife vehicles increase by…
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Nanotechnology
Researchers have solved a key problem with sodium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and grid energy storage
Artistic rendering of the important discovery that lowering the heating rate during the fabrication of cathodes in sodium-ion batteries eliminates the problem of distortion and cracking in core-shell particles with concentration gradients. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory. Lithium-ion batteries have long dominated the market as the go-to power source for electric vehicles. Consideration is also underway to store renewable energy for…
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