Clumps of tiny, molten pellets, known as "nurdles", are being washed up on its beaches, including in Skegness. From the top of the Giant Wheel on the resort's Pleasure Beach, which is due to ...

Japanese electronics company Elecom has recently unveiled the world’s first sodium-ion (Na+) power bank with a 9,000mAh capacity, supporting USB Power Delivery (PD) and offering up to 45W output via ...

Sodium is abundantly available in sea salt, as well as in the crust of the earth. Now, back to that power bank. Elecom's portable puck costs 9,980 JPY (US$67) in Japan, and is available in limited ...

And it looks like battery innovation isn’t stopping soon. A Japanese brand, Elecom claims to have achieved a breakthrough in Sodium-ion batteries with a new powerbank powered by this tech. The Elecom ...

Elecom’s Na Plus power bank doesn’t use lithium and can be recharged nearly 5,000 times. Elecom’s Na Plus power bank doesn’t use lithium and can be recharged nearly 5,000 times.

Wildlife charities have sounded the alarm about tiny plastic pellets washing up on English beaches. Nurdles are tiny pellets - around 1-5mm long - used to make plastic products. They are not toxic ...

Small pellets of plastic are washing up on the east coast of England following the fiery collision of two ships in the North Sea last week. The crash between an oil tanker and cargo ship on 10 ...

Unlike traditional lithium-ion batteries, which depend on scarce metals like lithium and cobalt, sodium-ion batteries use sodium, an element that’s way easier to source. That means less ...

The owners of a container ship which crashed into another vessel in the North Sea on Monday have denied reports it had hazardous sodium cyanide on board. US tanker Stena Immaculate was anchored ...

The Immaculate was set ablaze while moored at Grimsby Port. The tanker was transporting volatile substances including sodium cyanide, a highly toxic material that, alarmingly, interferes with the ...

In the aftermath of the crash there were fears it was carrying a combination of alcohol and 15 containers of sodium cyanide. However the Solong's owner, Ernst Russ, has confirmed the ship was not ...