This experiment explores how fast electricity really travels and whether a human could ever beat it. A thrilling look at physics in action!

Jeremy J. Michalek currently receives funding from Toyota Research Institute and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to study electric vehicle battery recycling and reuse and from the Technology ...

If your utility bill has increased recently, you're not alone. Electricity costs are, on average, 5.5% higher today than a year ago, and natural gas has increased by 13.8%, according to data from the ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

Electric Ireland has announced a surprise gas price decrease of 4 per cent and committed to keeping its electricity prices at their current levels ahead of the winter months. The pricing move comes ...

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

Key monthly costs for most Americans - shelter, food, health care, electricity - are outpacing inflation. Tiffany Tagbo has been working two jobs - one full-time, one part-time - to make ends meet for ...

STORY. WE’LL BRING YOU MORE UPDATES AS IT DEVELOPS. ALL RIGHT. IT’S BEEN A HOT AND EXPENSIVE SUMMER FOR ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS, AS MANY HAVE FACED SURGING BILLS THANKS TO THE HOT ...

DNA computers can use biological material to perform mathematical functions and store information, but their power sources have been fragile. Researchers now say they’ve developed a reliable source: ...

The deadline for updating your prepaid electricity meter is fast approaching, and many South Africans may still not know exactly how to process the update. Non-updated prepaid electricity meters will ...

A research team in Kiel has demonstrated a previously unknown effect in graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms whose ...

Tiffany Tagbo has been working two jobs – one full-time, one part-time – to make ends meet for most of the past decade, ever since the first of her two daughters was born. But a few months ago, her ...