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Robo-beetle weighing less than 1/100th of an ounce is powered by liquid methanol-fuelled ‘muscles’ At such small scales, batteries are not very efficient at storing energy for robots This means microrobots often rely on external power sources, limiting autonomy US researchers created RoBeetle which is powered instead by liquid methanol Combustion of the fuel causes … Read more
A gas cloud 15,000 light years from Earth has a ‘gamma-ray’ heartbeat powered by a nearby black hole – but astronomers don’t know how the heartbeat gets its energy. Scientists detected the heartbeat in the centre of a cloud in the constellation Aquila and it beats to the rhythm of a ‘microquasar’ system with a … Read more
Racing towards the future! Solar powered car attempts to break world record by driving 550 miles in 12 hours The Nuna Phoenix set off from a test track in the Netherlands this morning It must complete 294 laps and one metre to break current record of the Nuna8S Every two years the Vattenfall Solar Team … Read more
Aviation giant Rolls-Royce has thrown its significant expertise behind a project hoping to build the world’s fastest civil aircraft. Boom Supersonic is building a plane called Overture which, when completed, may be capable of flying at more than twice the speed of sound, with a range of 5,180 miles. It could take passengers from London to … Read more
A new generation of wearable devices powered by human sweat instead of electrolytes in batteries could help reduce harmful electronic waste. Researchers in Scotland have developed a flexible supercapacitor made from an absorbent polyester cloth, which wraps around the arm during exercise. Positive and negative ions in the wearer’s sweat interact with the cloth’s surface, … Read more
Japan welcomes its first submarine powered by lithium-ion batteries into service that provides longer endurance at speeds up to 20 knots while submerged Ouryu is Japan’s first lithium-ion battery powered submarine The vessel was welcome into service last week, but first launched in 2018 It hit speeds of 20 knots while submerged and 13 knots on the … Read more
Self-driving electric vehicles that change colour could be seen hitting the roads by 2050, automotive firm Auto Trader has claimed. Their predictions for the car of the future have been guided by so-called ‘futurologist’ Tom Cheesewright and a survey of more than 2,000 UK drivers. They think the car of 2050 will include an all-electric … Read more