The Fire Safety Research Institute team partnered with researchers from UL Solutions to conduct experiments to quantify hazards that are posed in residences when the lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery of an ...

Why would a Stanford researcher want to drill a hole through a battery he just invented? Well, you know how long it takes to charge up a cell phone. It can take hours. But a group of researchers at ...

Fast charging a battery is supposed to be risky—a shortcut that leads to battery breakdown. But for a Georgia Tech team studying zinc-ion batteries, fast charging led to a breakthrough: It made the ...

RICHLAND, Wash.—A common food and medicine additive has shown it can boost the capacity and longevity of a next-generation flow battery design in a record-setting experiment. A research team from the ...

Learn how to make a simple lemon battery and use it as an emergency phone charger in this hands-on science experiment. Watch step-by-step as we cut lemons, prepare copper and aluminum electrodes, and ...