Chinese scientist’s sodium battery leap; petition to boot Argentina: SCMP’s 7 highlights

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Lu Yaxiang received a China Youth May Fourth Medal for her work on energy storage. Photo: Sohu

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Scientist Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade working to make sodium-ion batteries commercially viable.