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Restore Britain’s candidate for the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election has been temporarily suspended from his role in the NHS for 'offensive' social media posts. Marlon West, who is from Greater Manchester, has worked in the public sector for 30 years as a community mental health nurse. On Friday July 17, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) published an interim decision confirming the decision to suspend Mr West for a period of 18 months. Mr West was not present or represented at the virtual hearing. An interim order stops a nurse or midwife practising during an investigation. The Manchester Evening News...

Single crystals of cathode material: (A) no internal boundaries and (B) internal boundaries visible. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have a long history of breakthrough discoveries with lithium-ion batteries. Many of these discoveries have focused on a battery cathode known as NMC, a nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide. Batteries with this cathode now power the Chevy Bolt. Argonne researchers have made another breakthrough with the NMC cathode. The team's new structure for the cathode's micro-sized particles could lead to longer-lasting and safer batteries able to operate at very high voltage and power vehicles...