Which is your favourite chemical element? To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table, our science journalists will be arguing for their pick from the 118 known elements. In this instalment, ...

Current methods of extracting the element–the key ingredient in lithium-ion batteries–destroy landscapes and take two years to complete. The startup Lilac says it has developed a new process that’s ...

Lithium resources are abundant in all parts of the world - and particularly present in South America. Chile is the country with the largest lithium reserves in the world, with 9.2 million tons in ...

Nevada-Oregon caldera hosts lithium clay estimated at 20-40 million tons Lithium discovery could reach $1.5 trillion at current market prices Quadruple-layered sediment and hydrothermal activity ...

One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king. Plutonium seemed a sure ...