Getting Your Facts Straight: author Siski Kalla on writing creative non-fiction for children. When you hear the term non-fiction, you might think textbooks, self-help books, gardening books and ...

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

Imagine a world where your fitness tracker or smart watch never needs to be recharged, not because it has a battery that never dies, but simply because your body provides the power it needs to ...

Researchers have developed a new scalable route to turn heat into electricity. Developed by ...

DENVER — Static electricity is a touchy subject. Touch or rub two materials together, and they can exchange electric charge. But the details behind the phenomenon of static electricity are poorly ...

A strange new kind of superconductivity has been uncovered in uranium ditelluride (UTe2), where electricity flows with zero resistance—but only under extremely strong magnetic fields that should ...

Mars may look like a quiet, dusty world, but it’s actually buzzing with hidden electrical activity. Powerful dust storms and ...

Superconductivity—the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any energy loss to heat—enables highly efficient, ...

In the process of converting carbon dioxide into useful chemicals such as ethylene—a key precursor for plastics—a major ...

Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world is bracing for another energy crisis. The US-Israel bombing of Iran and then the blockade of the strait of Hormuz have forced up the price of ...

Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head, and the transfer of charges will make your hair stand on end. Shuffle your feet on a carpet, ...