Japan needs over $24 billion in investment from both the public and private sectors to develop a competitive manufacturing base for batteries used in areas such as electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage, the industry ministry said on Wednesday. A specialist panel tasked with formulating battery strategy also set a target of securing 30,000 trained […]
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Elon Musk has approached brain chip startup Synchron Inc about a potential investment as his own company Neuralink plays catch-up in the race to connect the human brain directly to machines, according to four people familiar with the matter. Musk reached out to Synchron’s founder and chief executive, Thomas Oxley, in recent weeks to discuss […]
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes the “largest investment ever in combating the existential crisis of climate change”, according to President Joe Biden, who will sign the bill into law later on Tuesday. Around $369 billion of federal funds will flow into climate change and energy security, boosting domestic capacity to produce wind turbines, solar […]
For systems like global navigation, satellite mapping, determining the composition of exoplanets, and the next generations of communications, precision timing, measured using ultra-precise atomic clocks, is crucial. The current iterations of atomic clocks are massive things, weighing hundreds of kilograms, and must be kept in precise, challenging-to-maintain environments. Because of this, researchers are scrambling to […]
Australian swimmer Jessica Smith has had an uneasy relationship with prosthetics since a childhood accident, but her convictions are being challenged by a British bionic hand that can be updated remotely anywhere in the world. The 2004 Athens Paralympian was born without a left hand. Her parents were advised to fit a prosthesis to help […]
Using only stem cells and a specialized incubator, researchers have reportedly created a synthetic embryo of a mouse in the lab for the first time ever without the need for fertilized eggs, embryos, or even a mouse. This accomplishment, which was made by a team led by scientists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science and published in the […]
The medically recreational drug industry and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are seemingly a match made in heaven. Whether you view that as a good thing or not is up to you, but it is a massive component of the NFT drugs coexistence. Despite the controversy, the bond between the two is used to further well-intentioned causes, […]
A joint battery venture of Toyota Motor Corp and Panasonic Corp will buy lithium from ioneer Ltd’s Rhyolite Ridge mining project and use the metal to build electric vehicle batteries in the United States. The binding supply deal, announced on Sunday, is the second in less than a month for ioneer and a strong vote […]
The U.S. Energy Department on Monday announced it intends to loan a joint venture of General Motors Co and LG Energy Solution $2.5 billion to help finance construction of new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities. The conditional commitment for the loan to Ultium Cells LLC for facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan is expected to […]
Ford Motor Co on Thursday said it will import lower-cost lithium iron batteries for its North American electric pickup trucks and SUVs from Chinese battery champion CATL, as it works on a broader alliance with CATL and an array of separate deals to secure battery and battery materials into the next decade. Ford Vice President […]