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Researchers at Stanford University have published a study showing they were able to transmit electricity to an LED lightbulb, which uses a tiny one milliwatt charge, as it moved over a distance.

Electric cars require tens of kilowatts to operate and the team is now working on increasing the amount of electricity that can be transferred.

By tweaking the system to extend the transfer distance and improve efficiency, they believe they can transmit the kind of currents needed to power a car.

They envisage the technology being built into road surfaces in the future, allowing electric vehicles to charge on the move.

The technology could also be used to develop long distance charging stations for a range of electronic devices.

Speaking to MailOnline, Dr Shanhui Fan said: ‘We were able to construct a wireless power transfer system, where high efficiency can be maintained when transferring power to a moving object.

‘Our advancement could be useful whenever wireless power transfer to a mobile device or vehicle is desired.

‘But for power transfer to vehicles, one would need to significant increase the power that is transferred.

he Bat-Signal will shine over Los Angeles in tribute to the late Adam West, the actor best-known for playing Batman in the campy 1960 television series.

Mayor Eric Garcetti says the Bat-Signal will be lit at L.A.’s City Hall at 9 p.m. Thursday.

In Batman comics, movies and TV shows, the Bat-Signal is a spotlight with the shadow of Batman’s winged emblem that is shown on the night sky to call for Batman’s help.

West died Friday at age 88.

Garcetti announced the event on Twitter and added the hashtag, #BrightKnight.

Batman is often referred to as the Dark Knight, but West’s children said in a statement that he aspired to positivity and always saw himself as “The Bright Knight.”

The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates on Wednesday, the third time in six months, as unemployment in the US has continued to fall and consumer confidence has risen.

The Fed raised its benchmark borrowing rate range by a quarter-point, to between 1 and 1.25 percent, the highest since September 2008.

The Fed expects the economy to “expand at a moderate pace,” or for inflation to pick up to about 2 percent by next year after a slew of disappointing readings, the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement.

The widely expected hike is intended to cool the economy by making it more expensive to borrow money.

The central bank also announced it plans to start selling its holdings of Treasury and agency bonds this year, the first time since it started buying up debt to stabilize the economy following the financial crisis in 2008.

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These amazing images of Native Americans have been brought back to life through vivid colourisation.

The remarkable pictures show the group during the 1920s, with some of the leaders meeting with then American president, Calvin Coolidge, at the White House.

Other fascinating images show the native tribe mixing with the public, standing on top of the Lincoln Memorial holding the American flag high, and two Native American elders meeting with politicians at the Capitol Hill in 1936, the same year the Aborigines Act Amendment Act was legislated.

These incredible photographs were colourised by British colorization specialist, Royston Leonard, 54, from Cardiff, Wales.

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