The team’s advance changes this. “Ours register only 0.1 volts, which about the same as the neurons in our bodies,” says Yao.

Stationary systems—such as fixed-bottom tidal turbines—could theoretically operate in low-flow conditions too, but they would ...

Rub a balloon on your hair and the balloon typically picks up a negative electric charge, while your hair goes positive. But a new study shows that the charge an object picks up can depend on its ...

A first-of-its-kind test shows that reusing energy within a computer chip can work, thanks to two techy tricks.

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has ...

Static electricity—specifically the triboelectric effect, aka contact electrification—is ubiquitous in our daily lives, found in such things as a balloon rubbed against one's hair or styrofoam packing ...

When we think of things that conduct electricity, we usually picture copper wires or high-tech circuits, not living organisms. But researchers have just discovered something that flips that assumption ...

This month, Kim was named one of the top 300 Junior Innovators in the Society of Science's Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. He was selected from a batch of nearly 2,000 middle ...

On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released its latest data on how the US generated electricity during the first six months of 2025. The data suggests the notable surge in power use ...