A dead satellite can become a high-speed hazard in an orbit that is already packed with working spacecraft. That risk is why ...

In controlled experiments, engineers have shown that electricity can be transmitted through the air using highly controlled ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Since the 1950s, the Idaho National Lab, known locally as “the site,” has been the testing grounds for nuclear reactors for ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Electricity is not a policy construct. It is physics – and the physics have not changed since Michael Faraday and the steam ...

Two recent separate studies report successes with epidural electrical stimulation in helping paralysed patients regain the ability to walk.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

A science demonstration by Mayur Vaishnav at Sandipani English School in Gujarat's Halvad town captured students' excitement and has since gone viral.

A new form of nuclear power plant is in the works. Called TRISO, it is meant to be smaller, mass-produced and far less costly ...

The constant, energy-driven motion inside living cells may generate electricity in a way no one fully recognized before.

This device is known as a Josephson junction. It’s the foundational building block of quantum computers and advances of it ...