Learn how to make a simple lemon battery and use it as an emergency phone charger in this hands-on science experiment. Watch ...

Learn how to create a simple DIY electrical generator using a few easy-to-find materials. This step-by-step video guides you ...

Stewart C. Meyer Harker Heights Public Library clerk Heather Heilman leads the virtual Science Time program on Wednesday afternoons, and she always has something new and fun to bring to viewers. This ...

Franklin studied electricity and proved lightning’s electrical nature with a key and kite. Franklin made groundbreaking discoveries in his study of electricity. He wrote up his observations and ...

On January 17, 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...

Researchers from Singapore have developed a clever way to turn raindrops into electricity - enough to power 12 LEDs for 20 seconds using nothing more than a small vertical tube and some carefully ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science ...

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 ...

Sparks about to fly: Part of the experimental apparatus, showing the sample at the bottom and the counter-sample above it moments before the two come into contact. (Courtesy: Felix Pertl) Static ...

A weird phenomenon in which electricity flows like water was spotted in a nanowire made of "strange metal" — a bizarre metal phase that has stumped physicists for 40 years. When you purchase through ...