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Photosystem II is a healthy protein facility in plants, algae and also cyanobacteria that is in charge of dividing water and also creating the oxygen we take a breath. Over the past couple of years, a global partnership in between researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory as well as a number of various other organizations have actually had the ability to observe numerous actions of this water-splitting cycle at the temperature level at which it happens in nature.

A new coating developed by scientists at Stanford promises to bring lithium metal batteries ‘closer to reality’, by significantly extending their operational lifetime and limiting the occurrence of dendrites at the anode, which can cause short circuiting and fires.