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The Nobel Foundation has awarded scientists John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino the Nobel…
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The Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation on Wednesday issued an interim rule banning…
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This week’s edition of Batteries Are Dangerous brings us to the great state of New Jersey, where a Bluetooth speaker…
Gareth Clear was biking in Sydney this past weekend with his new iPhone 6 riding shotgun in his back pocket. After…
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Lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous—as is their gradual degradation over the lifetime of a gadget. Now, using a new…
A team of researchers in Singapore have developed a next generation lithium-ion battery that can recharge a battery…
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Electric car maker Tesla wants a cheaper, faster way to produce the lithium ion batteries that power its cars, and…
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The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was recently grounded across the world because its lithium ion batteries would…
Nobody thinks about batteries—until they've run out of juice, of course. But this humble and surprisingly ancient…
Electric car maker Tesla Motors is teaming up with the solar panel leasing company SolarCity to make what might be…
While gadgets improve by leaps and bounds every year, the technology that powers them hasn't. Batteries still suck,…
I was about to call this Ideo electric commuter bike the best, well, something, but that's just not the case. It won…
Lithium-ion batteries! They're in your phone, your laptop and pretty much every consumer electronic device that uses…