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welcome to the cotkey ride home for tuesday September 1st, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

The Dragon Eggs powered by diamonds. No, it's not a children's fairy tale. It is a cutting-edge type of nuclear battery that could give us super long-lasting power with very little waste.

The extinct breed of singing dogs that has been rediscovered. A brief history of Kool-Aid and

the drink's totally cool mascot. And new research into the effective use of bee venom for breast cancer treatment.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Expanding a little on a story on khaki.org today, scientists at the University of Bristol

have built a nuclear battery using diamonds and are using

it to power their custom sensor pods that they call dragon eggs, which they use to monitor

volcanic activity. These dragon eggs are meant to passively and remotely monitor volcanoes,

which means they need to be powered for a very long time,

because scientists can't just go up to a volcano where the dragon egg sensors are dropped off

by drone in order to perform maintenance on them. So the solution? Radioactive diamonds made by

reformed nuclear waste. Quoting wired, conventional chemical or galvanic batteries like the lithium ion cells in a smartphone

or the alkaline batteries in a remote are great at putting out a lot of power for a short

amount of time. A lithium ion battery can only operate for a few hours without a recharge,

and after a few years it will have lost a substantial fraction

of its charge capacity. Nuclear batteries, or beta-voltaic cells, by comparison, are all about

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