Jul 1, 2026
Storing a full day of clean power is the missing piece of a wind-and-solar grid — and lithium gets expensive past a few hours. Energy Dome's answer skips lithium entirely: it banks power by squeezing carbon dioxide into a liquid. Now a US utility and Google are putting money behind it.
Plus: a humanoid robot pulls a multi-day shift, a monthly shot that silences a gene, a battery made of CO2, NASA's private cargo run to the Moon, and a quantum computer that fits in a server rack.