Modern smartphones can safely stay plugged in overnight, but temperature and charging habits still affect long-term battery ...

The Normal Fire Department is encouraging people to safely dispose and charge batteries to prevent fires, and to ensure smoke detectors are working properly.

Pickering Interfaces has added two PXI and two PXIe battery simulators to its line of PXI test modules. The 41-754 (PXI) and ...

How many times have you borrowed someone else’s phone charger? Probably at least a few times.That's usually not con ...

A new thermodynamic design links ion movement and concentration to energy output, creating soft polymer films that generate ...

A better way to think about it is whether or not a device is rechargeable, said Jeff Marootian, the CEO of UL Standards & Engagement, a safety standards organization.

Researchers have recently proven that common soil bacteria can use light captured earlier in the day to power chemical work ...

Many smartwatch makers now gear their products and features for people who want to keep tabs on their bodies; this is how the ...

Called ec³, the material is made by combining cement and water with a liquid electrolyte and carbon powder — both readily available.

Over 400 applicants from eight area high schools applied and 63 were selected to participate in the four-day Watershed ...

C oncrete has long built our cities, but researchers now see it as a future power source, too. A new form of electron-conducting carbon concrete, or ec3, can store and release electricity. The ...

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. — A Lake County man was arrested on multiple battery charges after deputies used a helicopter to track and apprehend him. Deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call in the ...