A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from Singapore have developed a clever way to turn raindrops into electricity - enough to power 12 LEDs for 20 seconds ...

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

Experts from India are nearly making electricity from thin air. The result could be a sustainable clean energy source for small electronic devices, according to The Times of India. The scientists from ...

Imagine not having to pay your electricity bills because a gigantic magnet surrounding the Earth produced power. Well, Earth indeed has a magnet like this, which is its magnetic field. When the fiery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s pretty hard to imagine a world without electrons. With no electrons, there would be no TV, no radio, no internet. No ...

A stream of compressed air does not look like a power source. In factories, it usually hisses through pipes, drives tools, then disappears as waste. But under the right conditions, that same airflow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As efforts step up to protect coastal regions affected by erosion, scientists have found an unexpected way to protect communities—zapping the shoreline with electricity. In a study published in the ...