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One battery to rule them all: new tech lets your mobile devices share battery power
By Duncan Geere published
Researchers have developed a Bluetooth-like system that can extend the life of mobile devices by getting those with bigger batteries to contribute more power when communicating.

Here's how fungus might help recycle your phone's dead battery
By Patrick Goss published
A team of scientists are working on a novel way to get increasingly rare metals out of your dead batteries.

Better batteries, incoming? Lithium-ion battery capacity could be boosted six times
By Duncan Geere published
Silicon electrodes could give a massive boost to lithium-ion battery capacity.

This biological battery is made of vitamins
By Duncan Geere published
Chemists have developed a battery made out of vitamins, which is much friendlier to the environment than traditional batteries.
10 monster Pokémon Go battery packs to keep you juiced up
By Jamie Carter published
Augmented monster hunting is here, but with Pokémon Go comes flat batteries everywhere just when you needed it most. Treasure hunt for longer with these portable packs.

If you own one of these Vaio laptops, Sony wants it back
By Joe Osborne published
Sony has recalled about 1,700 Panasonic-made batteries within its 2013 Vaio laptops due to a fire hazard.

Why bread mold could lead to better smartphone batteries
By David Nield published
Research from the University of Dundee suggests certain types of fungi could help lithium-ion batteries to run for longer.

In the future, we'll pull battery parts out of the clouds
By Duncan Geere published
Researchers have figured out how to make battery parts out of carbon dioxide pulled from the atmosphere.
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