Lithium batteries and their inherent instability have been known about for almost 100 years, there's absolutely nothing new or shocking about research which confirms this. Look them up on Google, you'll find plenty of sources (not just wikipedia) all about this topic.
This article is a bit like saying "amazing new report reveals fuel to be inherently explosive" or "electric appliances found to carry inherent risk of electrocution" or even "pope found to be inherently catholic".
Lithium Ion carries a risk, but it's clearly an extremely tiny risk as there are 1000 million mobile phones sold every year and only about 1000 reported incidents per year. This works out as a risk of 0.000001% per year that your phone battery will do something nasty. You're several million times more likely to develop a fatal illness such as cancer than to be harmed by exploding phone batteries.
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This isn't anything new or startling
Lithium batteries and their inherent instability have been known about for almost 100 years, there's absolutely nothing new or shocking about research which confirms this. Look them up on Google, you'll find plenty of sources (not just wikipedia) all about this topic.
This article is a bit like saying "amazing new report reveals fuel to be inherently explosive" or "electric appliances found to carry inherent risk of electrocution" or even "pope found to be inherently catholic".
Lithium Ion carries a risk, but it's clearly an extremely tiny risk as there are 1000 million mobile phones sold every year and only about 1000 reported incidents per year. This works out as a risk of 0.000001% per year that your phone battery will do something nasty. You're several million times more likely to develop a fatal illness such as cancer than to be harmed by exploding phone batteries.