April 14, 1932 was a day that transformed subatomic physics forever as a lithium atom was split using a proton beam.

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods ...

But the toxic mineral lithium has become a critical pitfall ... Once hyped as “too cheap to meter,” just three “Peaceful Atom” plants have opened in the US since 1996, all of them ...

Lithium-ion technology dominates batteries at ... Devaraj and others in the field turn instead to a technology called atom probe tomography (APT). APT uses either ultrafast electrical or laser ...