Supercapacitors charge quickly but store little energy because all the action takes place only at the interface where its solid components — the electrodes — and its liquid component — the electrolyte — meet. In contrast, a battery brings its charge inside the electrodes and thus uses the full volume of the electrodes for storage. […]
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The Baltimore Orioles sit at the bottom of the American League East Division, but one young fan still managed to find bliss in their wretchedness. All it took was a foul ball that the kid ran down in the upper deck during Wednesday night’s Orioles-Royals game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. (See the clip
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Jeremy Corbyn has said he agrees with President Macron of France that the backstop, designed to avoid a hard border between the UK and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit, is indispensable. The Labour leader said the question of the Irish border was “fundamental” to a lot of things. “The Irish peace process was an
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A little over a year ago, Celtic fans Erin, Orlaith and Mikaela started a campaign to get free sanitary products into football grounds. Their own club Celtic were the first to sign up and then other clubs followed – but the reaction from other fans wasn’t totally positive. Since then, nearly 100 football clubs have
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Image copyright Getty Images Eminem’s publisher, Eight Mile Style, is suing Spotify. It claims the music-streaming service failed to correctly copyright the rapper’s work. Eminem has never been properly paid for songs “streamed on Spotify billions of times”, court papers say. And Spotify, which has yet to respond publicly, put the song Lose Yourself into
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Apple tried to make the new Apple-branded credit card attractive, copying the heft and sleekness of higher-end cards like the Chase Sapphire. But cardholders are discovering that with such a design, they’ll have to give it special care. Leather wallets and loose change pose danger for new Apple Card, for instance. In fact, Apple says
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Mike Moustakas stopped short of calling Milwaukee’s rain-shortened victory over the St. Louis Cardinals a must win. “But it was pretty important,” he said. Moustakas homered and Keston Hiura drove in a pair of runs to lead the reeling Brewers to just their third win in the last nine, 5-3 over the Cardinals on Wednesday
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Stocks moved broadly higher on Wall Street in early trading Thursday, extending the market’s gains from the day before. Technology companies and banks accounted for a big share of the gains as investors welcomed another batch of encouraging corporate earnings reports. Retailers Nordstrom, BJ’s Wholesale Club and Dicks’ Sporting Goods rose after reporting results that
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Aug. 22 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. It marks the point when Black women’s income finally caught up to earnings of white non-Hispanic men in the previous calendar year. Despite efforts to raise awareness of the pay gap, this year’s Black Women’s Equal Pay Day comes more than two weeks later than last year’s.
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But Conan O’Brien was thinking (jokingly) on his show Wednesday that the real estate purchase might be a good one for the United States’ portfolio. He called in “The Property Brothers” Jonathan and Drew Scott from HGTV to give their advice. See the clip above. The two praised Greenland’s location near quiet neighbors Canada and
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