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Viruses are primarily known as annoying bugs that give us a cold. But US researchers have found a way to employ them in order to improve energy storage, potentially increasing the range of electric cars threefold.

The city of Gumi, South Korea has debuted a wirelessly charged electric bus, becoming yet another municipality to embrace induction charging.

Starting next year Horizon 2020, the European Union research programme, will make around € 70bn in funding available over 7 years.

Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from problems ranging from less-than-ideal battery power to total transistor failure. It might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), for the first time ever, has developed just such self-healing integrated chips.

A German student has built an electromagnetic harvester that recharges an AA battery by soaking up ambient, environmental radiation.

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