A few years ago, a group of physicists created an unusual, never-before-seen subatomic particle. Using a particle accelerator at Riken, a Japanese research institute, they slammed streams of calcium ...

Half a century ago, the battery of the future was built out of sodium. The reason has to do with why the seas are salty. Sodium is a light element that ionizes easily, giving up one of its electrons.

Sodium-ion battery technology is moving from laboratory promise to commercial reality, with new peer-reviewed research ...

As the rest of the world tries to catch up with China in making lithium-ion batteries, Chinese manufacturers have already ...