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 ...

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

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 ...

MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - Russia plans to produce at least 60,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate in 2030, the natural resources ministry said on Monday, as Moscow seeks to reduce its ...