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UC Santa Barbara scientists just built a liquid that stores sunlight for years at nearly double a lithium battery's energy density — and the part worth noticing isn't the chemistry, it's what gets subtracted

UC Santa Barbara researchers have built a liquid material that stores sunlight in chemical bonds at nearly twice the energy density of lithium-ion batteries — and can release it as heat years later.

By JUSTIN BROWN

All Eat Better

Adults who keep a clean kitchen even when nobody's coming over may have learned early that mess meant the house felt less steady
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
Psychology says people who stack their plates and tidy up before leaving a restaurant aren't trying to impress anyone — they may be revealing a deeply internalized respect for invisible labor
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
Danone shuts 25-year-old Silk plant as plant-based milk category splinters into winners and losers
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
New Orleans just logged its heaviest Mardi Gras trash haul on record, and the easy explanation about bigger crowds collapses the moment you look at what's actually in the pile
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
Prodalim buys Better Juice as sugar fatigue and GLP-1 drugs rewrite the beverage playbook
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
Roughly 4.6 million Americans live within a half-mile of an abandoned oil well leaking methane into their air and water — and a tiny Montana nonprofit is doing the cleanup the industry walked away from
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
The Colorado River is about to break a 103-year-old legal compact and Corpus Christi could run dry next year — and the water isn't going where the headlines say it is
By LACHLAN BROWN
A Hong Kong lab made a stainless steel that shouldn't exist according to corrosion textbooks — and it could quietly cut green hydrogen's biggest hidden cost by 40 times
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
The IRS just handed Cheniere $370 million for burning gas its ships were going to burn anyway
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
Tonga's eruption revealed a natural methane scrubber hiding in the stratosphere
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
Petroleum is in your vanilla, your chicken, and your fertilizer — and almost nobody talks about it
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM
Supreme Court weighs whether EPA labels shield Bayer from Roundup cancer lawsuits
By VEGOUT EDITORIAL TEAM