In science and everyday life, the act of observing or measuring something sometimes changes the thing being observed or measured. You may have experienced this "observer effect" when you measured the ...

Having a gadget’s battery nestled snugly within the bowels of a device has certain advantages. It finally solves the ‘no batteries included’ problem, and there is no more juggling of AA or AAA cells, ...

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A mid-air scare resulted after a lithium battery caught fire, filling the cabin with smoke, during an Air China flight heading to South Korea. If you have this phone, it must be replaced 'All about ...

Pure Lithium Corp., a disruptive vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology company, officially opened its new headquarters in Chicago's Fulton Market district with a ribbon cutting ...

WASHINGTON — A dog in North Carolina started a fire while his owner was away after playing with a device with a lithium battery in it. The dog, named Colton, was home alone when he "counter-surfed," ...

Chinese scientists have developed a new battery system that could enable lithium cells to operate safely for thousands of hours, an advance that could lead to better batteries for electric vehicles ...

HANGZHOU -- A lithium battery spontaneously combusted on a flight from Hangzhou in East China's Zhejiang province to Seoul in the Republic of Korea on Saturday. The crew handled the situation ...

A Queens e-bike shop that caught fire a year ago due to a lithium-ion battery fire, went up in flames again, the FDNY said Saturday. The blaze broke out Friday around 7:05 p.m. on the first floor of ...

Beijing, October 18: In a shocking incident, an Air China flight from Hangzhou to Seoul was forced to make an emergency landing in Shanghai on Saturday after a lithium battery in a passenger’s cabin ...

Small house fire ignites after dog chews on lithium-ion battery A dog escaped unharmed after sparking a small fire in a North Carolina home, Chapel Hill Fire Department said on Oct. 13, 2025. (Chapel ...