While lithium extraction technologies generally focus on ways to get the essential metal out of the ground, there's another ...

Lithium-ion batteries power the devices we rely on every day—but when misused, they can overheat, catch fire, or even explode ...

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Lithium prices are recovering strongly as battery energy storage demand grows, creating second major market for the metal ...

The rechargeable batteries that power common items like e-bikes, scooters and electric cars can pose a dangerous new threat to firefighters. They burn hotter and longer — and many fire departments may ...

A team of Korean scientists has developed a separator technology that dramatically reduces the explosion risk of lithium ...

Now researchers say one of the most important lithium discoveries on Earth may be hiding in plain sight. Beneath remote desert hills along the Nevada and Oregon border, a long-dead volcano may contain ...

A well-developed caesium-rich LCT-type pegmatite system, with all five channels returning elevated to high concentrations of caesium, tantalum, and lithium.

Video above: Fire department warns about charging batteries after two house firesLithium-ion batteries, found in many popular consumer products, are under scrutiny again following a massive fire this ...

Here’s a thoroughly modern riddle: what links the battery in your smartphone with a dead yak floating down a Tibetan river? The answer is lithium – the reactive alkali metal that powers our phones, ...

One e-scooter with a lithium-ion battery: That’s all it took to burn down a home that had been in a Florida woman’s family for nearly 50 years. The same kind of gadget, and ones with similar batteries ...

Drinking alcohol while taking lithium, a medication doctors prescribe for bipolar disorder, can cause serious side effects. Typically, doctors advise people taking lithium to avoid consuming alcohol.