Batteries power the modern world, but how can we make them more sustainably and last longer. Lithium powers most of our modern batteries but it doesn't cope with the cold. The electrolytes inside lithium ion batteries are powerful but weak when its cold, so what can we use instead? Extracting lithium is carbon intensive and difficult, are there more abundant materials we can use? Calcium based batteries have a higher power density than lithium but finding a suitable electrolyte is a challenge.
Episode 357 - Microbiology vs Macro climate challenges
Episode 356 - Responding to signs of danger
Episode 355 - Satellites keeping us safe on the ground
Episode 354 - Safer pacemakers and mini machines inside our cells
Episode 353 - Mysteries of plants, from using rare metals to boosting photosynthesis
Episode 352 - Figuring out where sound comes from and perceiving pitch
Episode 351 - A new dwarf planet and what makes an exoplanet habitable
Episode 350 - Developing, tracking, recycling new materials
Episode 349 - Domesticating fungus for our food
Episode 348 - More efficient Lithium-Ion batteries and Organic Batteries
Episode 347 - Capturing carbon with better farms and forests
Episode 346 - Can washing machines help stop microplastics in oceans and make hospitals safer
Episode 345 - Overactive immune brain cells and brain cells failing to eat themselves
Episode 344 - Colliding galaxies, stellar foundires and the emptiness of space
Episode 343 - The circadian rhythm of plants, and fighting back against fungus
Episode 342 - Better chemistry and physics in everyday objects
Episode 341 - Forming, Saving and preserving new memories
Episode 340 - Insects revolutionizing agriculture
Episode 339 - Australian Science - life on gold, in the oceans and in deadly gas
Episode 338 - Exoplanets boiling and stretching, Goldilocks and Supernova
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