Sodium and mercury don’t just react — they fuse into something new. The result is sodium amalgam, a powerful tool in chemistry with surprising uses Higgins’ husband faces bankruptcy Nicole Kidman at ...

Although Charles Hall conducted his first successful run of the Hall-Héroult aluminium smelting process in the woodshed behind his house, it has ever since remained mostly out of reach of home ...

China just fired up a next-gen battery hub blending lithium and sodium in its latest energy leap. On Sunday, its first lithium-sodium hybrid energy storage station began operation, marking a major ...

At EES Europe 2025, one of the leading events for the energy storage industry, Aeson Power debuted its sodium battery energy storage product line, including the SIBPOM-4850 for telecommunications, the ...

Hydrogen fuel cells, which power some electric cars, pack far more energy per weight than lithium-ion batteries. The devices also show promise for decarbonizing aviation, shipping, and trucking. But ...

Your body is mostly water. It's in your blood, muscles, organs, and even your bones. You need it, but sometimes your body holds on to too much of it. This is water retention, and it causes puffiness ...

Sodium is a mineral that occurs naturally in many of the foods we eat. Sodium chloride, or salt, is the most common type of sodium found in nature. It's also the type of sodium you'll find in food.

Professor Y. Shirley Meng of the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Image courtesy of Dr. Y. Shirley Meng If nations are to meet their sustainable energy goals, experts argue that ...

Environmentalists and fishermen are pushing back against a plan from a group of scientists who want to dump more than 60,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide, more commonly known as lye, into the ocean off ...

Holland, MI facility scales up production capacity of sodium-ion batteries to 600 megawatts annually, addressing the energy storage needs of data centers powering the surge in Artificial Intelligence ...