Lithium sits at the center of the battery economy. Yet getting it out of rock still looks surprisingly crude. Spodumene, the ...

Most gadgets rely on lithium-ion batteries, and scientists have come up with a better way of getting at lithium.

Startup Rock Zero is commercializing the research, which could cut costs and carbon emissions from lithium production.

Demand for lithium has surged in recent years as lithium-ion batteries increasingly power more of our world. And yet, even as ...

While we make batteries based on many different chemistries, nothing has approached the massive scale at which we can produce ...

A breakthrough lithium-extraction method could help solve one of clean energy’s dirtiest problems. Researchers at Columbia ...

A couple of weeks ago, an outbreak of hantavirus erupted aboard a cruise ship. Three people died, but the outbreak was kept ...

Responding to the national need for lithium-based batteries, Chemical & Materials Engineering Professor Mano Misra and his team this fall began working with industry to extract the metal in an ...

Researchers have developed a new approach that slashes the land and time needed to extract lithium from brine, which could dramatically expand access to the critical mineral. A vital component of the ...

BEIJING--A slump in the price of lithium, a key raw material in electric car batteries, is dragging on China’s mining of the ...

Texas lawmakers proposed a bill to allow private-sector lithium mining companies to work on certain military bases.