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  • Senior Physical Sciences Reporter, Nature
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Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world

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By Davide Castelvecchi Verified
| Nature Verified
The lithium-ion battery is the beating heart of the modern world. It powers eight billion mobile phones, hundreds of millions of laptops and rapidly growing fleets of electric cars and energy-storage banks. But there’s a new contender breaking into the battery market. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer and much more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion cells. And this year could mark the start of the sodium era.
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The race to explore the deep ocean: four technologies transforming research

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By Davide Castelvecchi Verified
| Nature Verified
The bottom of the ocean has been mapped in much less detail than has the surface of Mars.Credit: US Geological Survey/Science Photo Library The ocean’s depths are among the ultimate frontiers for scientific exploration. Scientists have visually surveyed less than 0.001% of the sea floor, yet oceanography is essential to understanding the climate, ecosystems and processes of deep Earth — including earthquakes and the resulting tsunamis.
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Ocean floor witnessed splitting apart for the first time — releasing lava

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By Davide Castelvecchi Verified
| Nature Verified
When tectonic plates move away from each other, lava can to spill out onto the sea floor along mid-oceanic ridges.Credit: Doug Perrine/Nature Picture Library/SPL Geophysicists have, for the first time, caught the ocean floor in the act of spreading apart at one of its seams.
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