This New Technology Could Help Batteries Last Longer Than They Ever Have Before and other top stories.

• This New Technology Could Help Batteries Last Longer Than They Ever Have Before

  

  Imagine a battery that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times without ever corroding. A team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine, recently has invented just that using a nanowire-based battery material. This doesn't mean that we'll soon see such batteries on store shelves. The new research was intended to test nanowires and not a practical battery, research co-author Dr. Reginald Penner, chemistry professor at the university, told The Huffington Post on Friday. The ne..

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• Solar-powered plane lands in Mountain View after 3-day Pacific flight

  

  A solar-powered airplane landed in California on Saturday, completing a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean as part of its journey around the world.Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 in Mountain View, in the Silicon Valley south of San Francisco, at 11:45 p.m. following a 62-hour, nonstop solo flight without fuel. The plane taxied into a huge tent erected on Moffett Airfield where Piccard was greeted by the project's team. The landing came several hours after the Pic..

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• NASA pours $67 million into solar electric spacecraft engines

  

  NASA is big on solar electric propulsion (the Dawn spacecraft uses it, for instance) for a good reason: while the engines aren't powerful, they supply thrust for a very long time before giving up the ghost. And it now looks like the agency is ready to double down on that super-efficient tech. It just awarded a $67 million, 3-year contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne in hopes of developing an advanced solar electric propulsion system. The new technology could deliver twice as much thrust, and would b..

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• No Man's Sky: the art on the algorithms

  

  No Man’s Sky is a few months away from being launched on PS4, where many sci-fi and gaming fans are really hyped about. This game developed by Hello Games has actually ramped up the marketing of the game over the last few weeks Sean Murray, founder of Hello Games recently published an update of the game on the PlayStation Blog where he described the creation of “No Man’s Sky” art style. No Man’s Sky grants us full freedom to explore an infinite procedurally generated universe. Credit: WCCF Tech..

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• Minecraft' Developer Mojang Unleashes Free Strategy Game On Steam: Play 'Crown And Council' [Video]

  

  Mojang just announced and released a strategy game called 'Crown and Council" and it's completely free to download and play on Steam. Interestingly enough, just like Minecraft, 'Crown and Council' happens to be the work and pet project of a single 'Mojangsta,' Henrik Pettersson.(Photo : Mojang | YouTube) Mojang's got some slick moves. The gaming studio behind Minecraft not only announced but also released a surprise game called Crown and Council. There's more to Mojang's surprise, too. It's fr..

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