SAN LEANDRO, Calif. (KGO) -- For months 7 on Your Side has been reporting on the dangers of lithium batteries. They've exploded without warning in some hoverboards, smartphones, laptops and ...

Researchers at Michigan State University are using wood waste to make safety improvements to batteries people use every day.

Sodium-ion batteries are an interesting alternative to lithium-ion, but they've been held back by complications due to their ...

LAFD: battery fires are surging — 45 per week — and the department wants UL‑style rules and more hazmat staff.

We've become increasingly reliant on lithium-ion batteries. In their various shapes and sizes, they can power everything from smartphones to EVs and have proven invaluable for their capacity to charge ...

Why lithium batteries in our phones and laptops keep failing us - and how to lower that risk ...

An exploding lithium-ion battery in an illegal e-bike repair shop in the basement of a home in Queens sparked a huge fire that tore through the single-family house, FDNY officials said Tuesday.

There is growing danger in what people are throwing out after a lithium-ion battery burned and exploded at Edmonton’s dump.

A spine-chilling video showed a man- clueless of consequences- chewing on a lithium phone battery– only for the battery to ...

The pressure from the boy's teeth likely punctured the battery's casing, causing a chemical reaction known as the thermal runaway which led to the battery exploding near the boy’s mouth with flames.