Day: July 17, 2020

Replacing lithium with sodium in batteries

Posted on by Robin Edgar

An international team of scientists from NUST MISIS, Russian Academy of Science and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf has found that instead of lithium (Li), sodium (Na) “stacked” in a special way can be used for battery production. Sodium batteries would be significantly cheaper and equivalently or even more capacious than existing lithium batteries. The results of Read more about Replacing lithium with sodium in batteries[…]

FYI Russia is totally hacking the West’s labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies. So is China and Iran.

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Russian hackers at the state’s FSB spy agency have been caught breaking into Western institutions working on potential vaccines for the COVID-19 coronavirus in hope of stealing said research. That’s according to the British National Cyber Security Centre and America’s NSA today. The Kremlin-backed APT29 crew, also known by a variety of other names such Read more about FYI Russia is totally hacking the West’s labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies. So is China and Iran.[…]