Durian fruit could make electric chargers

The World

The world’s smelliest fruit — the durian — has a new, notable quality. It can be used to charge your phone, according to researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia. But they aren’t exactly growing batteries on trees, as the BBC’s Stephanie Prentice explains. 

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