LiPo battery bags claim to protect against fires and explosions. But how effective are they really, and who actually needs ...

Tiny droplets are powering big ideas in science. Researchers have developed a miniature, soft, and flexible lithium-ion battery made from biocompatible hydrogel. This new battery, smaller than a grain ...

Conventional lithium-ion batteries are known to present a fire risk, and can even cause explosions in certain cases. The ...

In a bid to make lithium-ion batteries safer, cleaner, and easier to recycle, scientists at the Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a novel quasi-solid electrolyte. The material, dubbed 3D-SLISE ...

It is pretty hard to write about the automotive industry these days. Not because there is no news around, but because of how senseless it all seems. A good example comes from the many solid-state ...

A Delta Air Lines flight made an emergency landing Monday after a passenger’s lithium battery-powered device caught fire midflight—one of more than 35 such incidents to occur on a U.S. flight so far ...