Mizzou's nuclear battery to power things smaller than your brain...

Courtesy Engadget  Sat, 10/10/2009 - 10:20

Oh yeah, everyone loves the extended battery , but are we really kosher with the added bulge?

A team of boffins at the University of Missouri certainly aren't, as they've spent the last good while of their lives researching and developing a new nuclear battery that could be used to power devices much smaller than, well, most anything.

The radioisotope cell, as it's called, can reportedly "provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than...

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