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Spent EV battery powder turned into thin lithium metal foil in lab tests
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Heartbeat stretching may shield heart valve collagen from breakdown, pig heart tests suggest
Heart valve flaps open and close millions of times a year yet stay strong for decades. Tests on pig hearts suggest the natural stretch pattern of each heartbeat protects their collagen from enzymes that would otherwise break it down.
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Exploded star's magnetic field seems too weak to launch the highest-energy cosmic rays
X-ray hotspots ahead of the shock wave from an exploded star suggest its magnetic field is too weak to boost particles to the very highest cosmic-ray energies. The finding helps explain a cutoff in its gamma-ray light.
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A new battery 'glue' could make recycling cleaner, lab tests suggest
A material that holds battery particles together helped recover used parts without leaving fluorine-containing waste in lab tests. It can also be processed using water during manufacturing.
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Nobel physics prize honours Francis Halzen's hunt for cosmic particles
A telescope buried in Antarctic ice catches tiny particles from deep space. Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for helping make that unusual observatory, IceCube, a reality.
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