Okay, not quite sea salt. But sodium, the 6th most common element on Earth, and regular feature at the dinner table (as sodium chloride table salt, don’t eat sodium metal!), could soon make batteries cheaper, and more sustainable.1–3 In modern batteries, a positive ion (an atom with less electrons than it would like, such as […]
Imagine you find a very nice cooking recipe online and you want to replicate it. You print it out and head to the kitchen. But when you get there, you realize that some of the steps have been printed several times. You begin to prepare the dish, but the repeated steps make it hard to […]
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin attempted to catch lightning in a bottle with a kite, a key, and a Leyden jar. Whilst it wasn’t his purpose with these experiments, he would have been able to experience first-hand the difficulties in storing electrical energy in a jar. 270 years later, and researchers are attempting a similar but […]
Science Communication in Media Smart devices and technologies surround us more than we are aware. From face recognition smartphones to consumer preference cookies, we produce data at every technological interaction. To give one example, operating the engines for a two-jet plane on a 24h journey can produce as much data as Facebook does in one […]
Holography is a technique used to generate images that look like 3D objects. These images (also called holograms) give a perception of depth through interaction of waves of light beams. Over the years people have used holography in numerous fields, from making art and museum exhibits to environments of augmented reality (AR). In our project […]