Tag: electricity

Factories have been shut down and people were asked to reduce power consumption

It takes a lot of juice to stave off heat.

Electricity is quite busy in the natural world.

A clever device runs at the fringe of physics to solve our wasted energy problems.

Bitcoin may have made some people rich, but it also consumed a lot of energy and produced a lot of ...

Who knew sound and current can intertwine so much?

Germany took the lead in renewable energy for one day.

Wired.

No more black lung.

The new method could treat a wide range of diseases, from diabetes to arthritis.

This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!

Electrically stimulating the frontopolar cortex can enhance creativity, a new study from Georgetown University found.

The largest and last coal-fired plant in operation in Scotland was officially shut down, marking an end to an 115-years-long ...

The town of Albertville in southeastern France has begun using cheese to generate electricity. Their power plant, build in the ...

Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report the first experimental proof of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic ...

Advances in magnet technology have allowed MIT scientists to design a cheaper, more compact, modular and highly efficient fusion reactor ...

Forget potato clocks - this is the real deal. Plant-e, a start-up company in the Netherlands created promising new technology ...

The Electric Eel, a scaleless fish from the Amazon possesses an electroshock system very similar to a Taser. Not only can ...

Image: Nature Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have created a thin metamaterial surface that is capable ...

Illustration: niemer.deviantart.com Here's a weird study. A group of psychologists at University of Virginia introduced men and women alone in a ...

High voltage power lines aren't quite the safest places to be around, especially if you're a large animal or bird ...

(c) The Guardian The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee  has recently issued a report that laments the embarrassing ...

Your first impression after seeing one or more of the photos featured in this piece might be that these are ...

Researchers at  University of California, Davis have shown for the first time how whole cells and fragments orient and move in ...

Pollination is the game, "summon bees" is the spell, and electricity is the mana - that's how I'd try to ...

Lighting has gone a long way since Thomas Edison ushered in the first mass-produced light bulbs, causing not only a ...

The solar steam device developed at Rice University has an overall energy efficiency of 24 percent, far surpassing that of ...

In an extremely exciting find, scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found a  type of bacteria that creates electrical currents on ...

In the evergrowing search for new energy sources, scientists have started searching for more simple solutions, and what they found ...

Dolphins are absolutely amazing creatures, smarter beyond whatever you might think, and with a heart of gold. But now, researchers ...

Yellowstone is without a doubt one of the most fascinating places on the face of the planet. But it doesn't ...

You might think that this isn't quite the best time in the world to announce a nation wide nuclear plan, ...

Superconductivity occurs when the natural electrical resistance is exactly 0; it occurs in certain materials at very low temperatures. According ...

Eddy currents are electrical phenomena that take place when a conductor is exposed to an oscilation of the magnetic field ...

Researchers from Yale University succeeded in what seemed to be an impossible task: they've created a transistor from a single ...

You're not going to power too many devices with electricity from trees. But it is a very interesting phenomenon.

Researchers are searching everyday for options which could bring an ending to the energy issue or at least delay it ...