Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A battery made of diamonds could power devices for thousands of years, scientists have announced. This battery would be ...

Imagine a battery that doesn’t need replacing for thousands of years. That’s not science fiction—it’s the groundbreaking innovation that a group of researchers in the UK has recently achieved. By ...

The world's first nuclear-powered battery, which uses a radioactive isotope embedded in a diamond, could power small devices ...

The future of our spacecraft could all come down to diamonds. While diamonds are often regarded as one of the hardest materials in existence, these hard gems, more specifically radioactive diamonds, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully developed the world’s first ...

In a global first, researchers from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Bristol have created a diamond battery using radioactive decay from carbon-14. The ...

Scientists in the UK have successfully created the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, which could power low-energy devices like satellite communication equipment for over 5,000 years. The ...

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If you read that headline and thought "okay, what's the catch," we'll spoil it for you: the "catch" is that the battery can only provide a very small amount of power, on the order of milliwatts. It's ...

In brief: Researchers from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority have created the world's first-ever diamond battery powered by radioactive carbon-14. The invention could prove ...