The Next Challenge for Solid-State Batteries? Making Lots of Them

For many years, scientists have puzzled what to do with the liquid inside a lithium-ion battery. This electrolyte is vital to how batteries work, shuttling ions from one finish of…

Smaller Reactors May Still Have a Big Nuclear Waste Problem

Lindsay Krall determined to review nuclear waste out of a love for the arcane. Figuring methods to bury radioactive atoms isn’t precisely easy—it takes a mix of particle physics, cautious…