Chicago Public Schools has acknowledged the challenges of having older facilities like Volta, and said “all concerns are ...

Chicago Public Schools officials say one of the boilers at Alessandro Volta Elementary School in Albany Park stopped working this week. Crews installed temporary heaters inside impacted classrooms ...

To commemorate their value, February 18 has therefore been designated International Battery Day. On this day in 1745, Italian Alessandro Volta was born, the inventor of the prototype electric battery.

Inspired by Galvani’s discoveries, fellow Italian scientist Alessandro Volta would go on to invent, in 1800, the first electrical battery—the voltaic pile—which consisted of brine-soaked pieces of ...

What if these two problems could be addressed by a single solution — one that diminishes food waste by turning it into energy ...

This is one of the earliest electric batteries ever made. It was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1799 and consists of discs of two different metals, such as copper and zinc, separated by cardboard ...

Ever since Alessandro Volta created the first true version in 1800, the battery has been on a slow but steady rise to fame – powering revolution after revolution – literally. But, can this ...