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Researchers find way to produce lithium for electric car batteries in the UK

Published 21 January 2021
By Kieran Ahuja
British researchers working on ways to source lithium for electric car batteries have extracted a precursor compound from UK rocks.
2018 Smart fortwo headlight close up

Revealed: the most beautiful new car on sale

Carwow claims to have used the scientific method to determine the best-looking car from the 626 models that it says have gone on sale in the UK.
Published 08 November 2019
Pigeons "the perfect tool" for monitoring air pollution

Pigeons "the perfect tool" to monitor pollution

They have been maligned as “rats of the sky”, a filthy menace blighting our cities. Could it be, though, that far from spreading illness from...
Published 22 February 2018
How sat-navs shut down brain’s ability to navigate

How sat-navs shut down brain’s ability to navigate

In 2012 three Japanese tourists in Australia drove their rented car up to its wheel arches on a mudflat and themselves into the annals of...
Published 29 March 2017