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Upward-Shooting ‘Blue Jet’ Lightning Spotted From International Space Station

January 23, 2021

Photo via European Space Agency Article by Nicoletta Lanese, Live Science Scientists on the International Space Station spotted a bright-blue lightning bolt shooting upward from thunderclouds. Blue jets can be difficult to spot from the ground, since the electrical discharges erupt from the tops of thunderclouds. But...

IBM’s cobalt-free EV battery uses materials extracted from seawater

December 18, 2019

Image courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Article by Christine Fisher, EnGadget Electric vehicles will play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but they are not yet a perfect solution. Today, most EVs run on lithium-ion batteries made with heavy metals like...