It took just a 9-volt battery and a little brain zapping to turn science writer Sally Adee into a stone-cold sharpshooter. She had flown out to California to test an experimental DARPA technology that ...

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This post was updated Oct. 28 at 11:31 p.m. Yu Huang, a UCLA materials science and engineering professor, became the first ...

Zaps of static electricity are commonplace in everyday life. But can static electricity give enough of a jolt to start a fire? Static electricity is the result of an imbalance between negative and ...

Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates an electrical current, something that was first recorded in 600 BCE yet not fully ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Electricity is everywhere and you might not even know it. Science Central executive director Martin Fisher stopped by WANE 15 to share how that can be true. You can see that ...

The MIT professor was unequivocal. “If we had to stop producing CO₂, no coal, oil, or gas could be burned,” Carroll Wilson declared. The world would have to adopt nuclear energy en masse and perhaps ...