A team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada discovered a simple and cheap way to extend battery life in smartphone and laptop batteries. As CBC reports, a research team led by PhD ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ageing computer systems and an outdated electricity network means National Grid is often unable to use ...

Lithium-ion batteries pack an amazing punch for their size. They’re robust enough to run our laptops for hours, power our smartphones, and even drive our cutting-edge electric vehicles. However, ...

Lumafield has released the results of a new study of lithium-ion batteries that “reveals an enormous gap in quality between brand-name batteries and low-cost cells” that are readily available through ...

About 400 million people in India are off grid, and use other sources to get power Old laptop batteries still have enough life in them to power homes in slums, researchers have said. An IBM study, ...

An X-ray analysis of over 1000 lithium-ion batteries reveals significant differences in quality between branded products and cheaper alternatives. The company Lumafield used computer tomography ...