Researchers are always developing better battery technologies, hoping to find ones that last a long time and never need to be ...

Sometimes cell phones die sooner than expected or electric vehicles don't have enough charge to reach their destination. The ...

Researchers at Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology have created a nuclear battery that could turn ...

Energy storage technology has reached a transformative milestone as the BV100, a miniature atomic energy battery, enters mass ...

Imagine never charging your phone again or having a pacemaker that lasts a lifetime. Scientists are developing tiny nuclear ...

Over time, and with continued use, they degrade and require charging more frequently, prompting the need for innovative ...

Nuclear Power In Everything? When nuclear power generation became a practical technology, it gave hope that the energy that had so far only been used to create world-ending bombs could also save the ...

A team led by Su-Il In, a professor at South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, is developing an ...

Because it decays slowly — with a half-life of 5,730 years — a radiocarbon battery could theoretically last millennia. That’s ...

In a typical betavoltaic battery, electrons strike a ... These long-lasting nuclear batteries could enable many applications, says In. For example, a pacemaker would last a person's lifetime ...