RIKEN physicists have found a magnetic material that converts heat into electricity with high efficiency, making it promising ...

Coal generation fell to a record low during June 2025, and experts say that the EU's power system is changing. The picture is ...

"Static electricity is what happens in the world, in the natural world, when two different types of materials run together and they build up a lot of extra negative charges," said Anika Taylor ...

Clamp the device in to see how far it can stretch and still keep the electricity flowing. - [Malakooti] Ready? (suspenseful music) - [Host] At 150% the original length, electricity still flows easily.

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The most common cause of static electricity is a phenomenon known as triboelectricity, Pourya Shamsi, a power electronics engineer at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, told Live ...

The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE. Even after 2,600 years’ worth of tiny shocks, however, researchers couldn’t fully explain how rubbing two objects together ...

Electricity-generating bacteria may power future innovations Researchers uncover surprising survival strategy that could reshape biotech and energy systems ...

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA). "Electric fungi: The biobattery that needs to be fed." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 ...

It’s amazing how much of our lives are touched by static electricity and how much of the universe depends on it.” And now we know why rubbing is so important to the process. The study is ...