Researchers have unveiled an “evapolectric” device that pulls energy from the evaporation of water, producing significantly more electrical power than previous moisture-based energy technologies. The ...

In a potentially revolutionary development for renewable energy, a team of physicists has successfully demonstrated the generation of electricity using the Earth’s rotational energy. This breakthrough ...

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 ...

AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, ...

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This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviors ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...

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When the wind blows on Mars, electricity crackles through the air. For the first time, scientists have detected electricity in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover ...

From cancer care to portable food safety testing and climate-resilient crops, the IAEA demonstrated how nuclear technology is transforming lives well beyond the energy sector at last month’s Beyond ...

A growing majority of Republicans prioritize the development of fossil fuel energy sources like oil and natural gas.

When Manuele Aufiero was a child, his parents would take him hiking along a reservoir in northern Italy. It wasn’t a typical reservoir, though. This one drained and refilled constantly, with pumps ...