Global Technology – May 2013

Next, let's focus on this month's most important advances in technology, starting with a key breakthrough in energy research.

As explained recently in the journal Nature Communications, the most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cell phone powered by these batteries to jump-start a car and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye.

Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the new micro-batterie.....