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Artificial intelligence helped scientists create a new type of battery 

The process identified 23 promising materials from 32 million candidates in just 80 hours 

A person's hand is shown inserting a coin battery into a testing device.

A new type of battery, based on a material discovered with the help of AI, is shown being tested in the laboratory.

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By Emily Conover

In the hunt for new materials, scientists have traditionally relied on tinkering in the lab, guided by intuition, with a hefty serving of trial and error.

But now a new battery material has been discovered by combining two computing superpowers: artificial intelligence and supercomputing.