Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it to create renewable ...

The new method to generate electricity from rain-like droplets using a plug flow system produces enough power to light 12 LEDs.

Dr Charles Buhler has been the lead NASA scientist on Electrostatics. An experiment last month was sent to the moon and ...

If farmers install solar panels over their rice fields, their overall revenue, including income from selling solar-generated ...

Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there’s growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

A Texas experiment to fund new natural gas-burning power plants with $5 billion in public loans is faltering as several of the proposed facilities drop out, threatening the states ...

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enclosed their “atmosphere” inside a glass sphere and jolted it with electricity, producing simple amino acids containing carbon and nitrogen. The Miller-Urey experiment, as it is now known ...

The consequences are now painfully evident in the form of skyrocketing electricity and heating costs. One of the most damaging policies enacted under Murphy is the renewable energy standard ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

Miller and Urey combined ammonia (NH3), methane (CH4), hydrogen (H2) and water, enclosed their “atmosphere” inside a glass sphere and jolted it with electricity, producing simple amino acids ...

disasters and political convulsions—can cause. In coming years, though, energy security will mean electricity.