Lithium. While it’s not quite “the Spice” of Dune, the silvery, reactive metal is an extraordinarily valuable means for ...

Scientists unveil a solid electrolyte that moves lithium as fast as liquids, promising safer, fast-charging batteries.

A boom in battery storage has bolstered the demand outlook for lithium in 2026, driving hopes for an accelerated turnaround ...

Lithium-ion batteries contain nickel, cobalt, and lithium – valuable resources that play a major role in powering electric vehicles. Mining has been the typical method for obtaining these metals, but ...

Demand for lithium is rising due to its use in batteries for mobile devices, cars and clean energy storage. Securing access ...

Lithium batteries are in the news constantly. But lithium has plenty of other uses. It's a drug for bipolar disorder. It used to be put in soda for hangovers, and it saved the lives of the Apollo 13 ...

Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

Silicon Valley startup Lilac Solutions has a method to get lithium for batteries that’s cheaper, easier on the environment and less water-intensive than mining: it plans to pull it from the Great Salt ...

A study this week in the journal Nature found that the loss of lithium, a naturally occurring element in the brain, could be an early sign of Alzheimer’s and a powerful driver of the disease, which ...

Sometimes you have to check back in with a “left for dead” sector. Lithium carbonate prices have cratered more than 80% from their late-2022 peak as wave after wave of new supply hit the docks.

Licensed as a psychiatric nurse practitioner more than 20 years ago, I thought I’d never need or want to prescribe lithium. Old school, I thought. A 1950s drug; we have much better now. It’s true, ...

India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has prohibited the use of power banks for ...