Batteries are all over the place -- in our cars, our PCs, our cell phones... Find out all about batteries, from the basic concept at work to the actual chemistry going on inside!

Lots of useful information on AA and AAA batteries including info on the use of rechargeable batteries ...

Ever heard of a paper-thin battery Power Paper could revolutionize tiny electronics -- by making them tinier!

Sitting in the National Museum of Iraq is a earthenware jar about the size of a man's fist. Its existence could require history books throughout the world to be rewritten. According to most texts the voltic pile, or electric battery, was invented in 1800 by the Count Alassandro Volta. Volta had observed that when two dissimilar metal probes were placed against frog tissue, a weak electric ...