Zinc-air batteries have a lot going for them. They’re lightweight, compact and made of more sustainable, less flammable materials than other batteries. But they’re usually not rechargeable. A new ...

Scientists and NASA are eyeing radioactive batteries that could keep spacecraft running far beyond current lifespans.

The flowless zinc-bromine battery (FLZBB) is a promising alternative to flammable lithium-ion batteries due to its use of non-flammable electrolytes. However, it suffers from self-discharge due to the ...

At its Battery Day event, Tesla unveiled its new 4680 battery cell developed in-house and the manufacturing process behind it. The highly anticipated presentation went deep into details about all the ...

Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers have developed a battery that can take any shape. This soft and conformable battery can be integrated into future technology in a completely new way.

Building a better battery requires dealing with problems in materials science, chemistry, and manufacturing. We do regular coverage of work going on in the former two categories, but we get a fair ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Battery Ventures, a global, technology-focused investment firm, announced the acquisition of Labguru (BioData Inc.), the life-science laboratory-data platform, from ...

Creating a rechargeable world has earned three scientists the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry. John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University in ...

We're going "Back To School" today, revisiting a classic at-home experiment that turns lemons into batteries — powerful enough to turn on a clock or a small lightbulb. But how does the science driving ...