Electricity News
March 21, 2025
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Mar. 20, 2025 — Scientists recently unveiled a first-of-its-kind authentication protocol for wireless, battery-free, ultraminiaturized implants that ensures these devices remain protected while still allowing ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — Researchers injected CO2 gas into seawater while applying an electrical current. The process transformed dissolved ions, minerals in seawater into clusters of solid particles. The clusters hold over ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — Researchers investigated how to use bio-based materials to produce effective UV protection films for solar cells. The study was the first to compare how the properties of different bio-based UV ...
Mar. 19, 2025 — Regulations finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2024 could cut emissions from the power sector by 51% over 2022 levels, compared to only 26% without the rules, according to a new ...
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Mar. 18, 2025 — Scientists are exploring how web search engine technology might also keep the lights on, the water running and the trains ...
Mar. 18, 2025 — The smart MAIJU jumpsuit offers a novel approach to at-home monitoring of infants' early motor development. The wearable device combines expertise in ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research, and tests of fundamental theories. But researchers are now pushing ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...
Mar. 17, 2025 — Until now, a global evaluation of ocean current energy with actual data was lacking. Using 30 years of NOAA's Global Drifter Program data, a study shows that ocean currents off Florida's East Coast ...
Mar. 12, 2025 — Researchers have published a new study that dives deep into nickel-based cathodes, one of the two electrodes that facilitate energy storage in ...
Mar. 14, 2025 — Iridium-doped iron-cobalt (Fe-Co-Ir) alloys, previously identified through machine learning, have been shown to have enhanced magnetic properties, surpassing even the widely used pure Fe-Co alloy. ...
Mar. 13, 2025 — With today's data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow. Initial experiments have already shown a promising new strategy: Magnetic ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that water generates an electrical charge up to 10 times greater than previously understood when it moves across a surface. The team observed when a water droplet became ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — A new strategy for recycling spent lithium-ion batteries is based on a hydrometallurgical process in neutral solution. This allows for the extraction of lithium and other valuable metals in an ...
Earlier Headlines
Mar. 13, 2025 — Scientists improved battery durability and energy density with a nano-spring ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new method to generate electricity using small plastic beads. By placing these beads close together and bringing them into contact, they generate more electricity than ...
Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers have developed cost-effective and efficient water-splitting catalysts to be used in the eco-friendly production of hydrogen. Catalyst performance surprisingly increases over ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — By replacing clothes dyers with line drying, households in the U.S. could save upwards of $2,100 and avoid 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the lifetime of a dryer. The exact impacts, however, ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — The enormous computing resources needed to train neural networks for artificial intelligence (AI) result in massive power consumption. Researchers have developed a method that is 100 times faster and ...
Mar. 6, 2025 — Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers show that Cartan's First Structure Equation, which relates to edge and screw dislocations in crystal lattices, can be recast in the same form as a basic mathematical formula that ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — A research team has developed a groundbreaking new method of producing carbon fiber while drastically reducing its energy ...
Mar. 5, 2025 — Theoretical physicists reveal that room-temperature superconductivity is possible within the laws of our Universe, linked to fundamental constants like electron mass and Planck constant. Discovery ...
Mar. 3, 2025 — For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, engineers have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom thick can do the ...
Feb. 28, 2025 — In the race to meet the growing global demand for lithium -- a critical component in batteries for electric vehicles -- a team of researchers has developed a breakthrough lithium extraction method ...
Feb. 28, 2025 — Scientists have come up with a lithium ion capacitor using electrodes produced from wood particles that are discarded as waste in sawmills. This biomass is both readily available and sustainable, ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — A research group has revealed fundamental insights into anode-free solid-state batteries, paving the way for efforts to improve their ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — A twist you'll never see coming: a breakthrough in understanding the relationship between chirality and electric flow at a microscopic level may help us develop chiral information ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Perovskite solar cells could last ten times longer thanks to new research, which suggests alumina nanoparticles significantly enhance the lifespan and stability of these high-efficiency energy ...
Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers are working to enhance battery safety and efficiency by developing solid-state alternatives to lithium-ion batteries. These batteries offer improved energy efficiency and safety, but a ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — An engineering student refined a century-old math problem into a simpler, more elegant form, making it easier to use and explore. Divya Tyagi's work expands research in aerodynamics, unlocking ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — Scientists have harnessed a unique property called incipient ferroelectricity to create a new type of computer memory that could revolutionize how electronic devices work, such as using much less ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer also works at room temperature. The researchers have shown that information can be transmitted using magnetic wave motion in complex ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — New research offers insights that could help reduce the amount of radioactive tritium embedded in the walls of fusion vessels to a ...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Scientists Discover Smart Way to Generate Energy With Tiny Beads
- Self-Optimizing Catalysts Facilitate Water-Splitting for the Green Production of Hydrogen
Monday, March 10, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- New Method Significantly Reduces AI Energy Consumption
- Smart, Energy-Efficient Robot Grippers Cut Production Costs
Monday, March 10, 2025
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- New Discovery Could 'revolutionize Carbon Fiber Industry'
- The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors
Monday, March 3, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
- Researchers Develop Efficient Lithium Extraction Method, Setting Stage for Sustainable EV Battery Supply Chains
- Eco Friendly, Inexpensive System for Storing High-Power Energy from Pine Biomass
Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Leading the Charge to Better Batteries
- Unraveling How a 'magnetic Twist' Induces One-Way Electric Flow
- Scientists Crack the Code to Longer-Lasting Perovskite Solar Technology
- Cracking the Code on Solid-State Batteries
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Student Refines 100-Year-Old Math Problem, Expanding Wind Energy Possibilities
- Material's 'incipient' Property Could Jumpstart Fast, Low-Power Electronics
- New Low-Cost Challenger to Quantum Computer: Ising Machine
- Some Fuel Lodges in the Inner Walls of Fusion Vessels: Researchers Now Have a Better Idea of How Much
- New Method Developed to Dramatically Enhance Bioelectronic Sensors
- Critical Nanoscale Phenomena for More Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
- Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Toward High Electro-Optic Performance in III-V Semiconductors
- Breakthrough in High-Sensitivity Quantum Sensors With Diamond Heteroepitaxy
- Scientists Design Battery That Runs on Atomic Waste
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Chip-Based System for Terahertz Waves Could Enable More Efficient, Sensitive Electronics
- Rooftop Panels, EV Chargers, and Smart Thermostats Could Chip in to Boost Power Grid Resilience
- Cooling Materials -- Out of the 3D Printer
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- A Miniature Swimming Robot Inspired by Marine Flatworms
- Towards New Battery Tech: Chemists Demonstrate High-Performance Sodium-Ion Cathode
- A New Way to Observe Electrons in Motion
- For Success in Bioelectronics, Build With Nature-Inspired Design
- Contact Electrification Depends on Materials' Contact History, Physicists Show
- Magnetic Semiconductor Preserves 2D Quantum Properties in 3D Material
- Magnetic Switch Traps Quantum Information Carriers in One Dimension
- Breakthrough in Wireless Charging Technology
Friday, February 28, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- Researchers Record Ultrafast Chorus Dance of Electrons on Super-Small Particle
- New Microactuator Driving System Could Give Microdrones a Jump-Start
Friday, February 14, 2025
Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Combining Millions of Years of Evolution With Tech Wizardry: The Cyborg Cockroach
- Solar-Powered Device Captures Carbon Dioxide from Air to Make Sustainable Fuel
- Scientists Herald Active Matter Breakthrough With Creation of Three-Dimensional 'synthetic Worms'
- The 'hydrogen Economy' May Be Relatively Small, but Critical
- Engineers Discover Key Barrier to Longer-Lasting Batteries
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Mirror, Mirror Trap the Light: Measuring Invisible Light Waves Via Electro-Optic Cavities
- The Next-Generation Solar Cell Is Fully Recyclable
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- Turning Car and Helicopter Exhaust Into Thermoelectric Energy
- When Qubits Learn the Language of Fiberoptics
- New Smart Sensor Takes the Pain out of Wound Monitoring
Monday, February 10, 2025
- Better Texture for Better Batteries
- Researchers Are Driving the Charge of Zero Emissions
- Nanoscale Tin Catalyst Discovery Paves the Way for Sustainable CO2 Conversion
- New Autonomous System to Monitor Arctic's Melting Ice
- Secure and Steady 6G Communication
Friday, February 7, 2025
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- 'Living' Electrodes Breathe New Life Into Traditional Silicon Electronics
- Physicists Measure a Key Aspect of Superconductivity in 'magic-Angle' Graphene
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
- Coal Emissions Cost India Millions in Crop Damages
- Engineers Model Electric Grid Demand for EVs to Charge While in Motion
- Why Your Headphone Battery Doesn't Last
- Why Do Plants Transport Energy So Efficiently and Quickly?
- Scientists Develop Groundbreaking Biosensor for Rare Earth Element Detection
- AI-Driven Performance Prediction Model to Advance Space Electric Propulsion Technology?
- Partnership Working Key to Unlocking EV Battery Recycling Problem
- New Device Uses Electrically Assisted Wind to Fight Fires
Monday, February 3, 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025
- Recycling Lithium-Ion Batteries Cuts Emissions and Strengthens Supply Chain
- This Multiferroic Can Take the Heat -- Up to 160?
- Lightsails Could Reach Distant Star Systems
- Fans Not Enough for Elderly in Heat Waves
- Aging Reactors Need a Concrete Solution
Thursday, January 30, 2025
- E-Mobility: AI System Accelerates the Development of Powertrains
- Role of Barrier Films in Maintaining the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
- A Spintronic View of the Effect of Chiral Molecules
- Your Fridge Uses Tech from the 50's, but Scientists Have an Update
- Generating Electricity from Tacky Tape
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- New Atom-Based Thermometer Measures Temperature More Accurately
- The Secret Life of Catalysts: New Discoveries in Chemical Reactions
- New Study Improves the Trustworthiness of Wind Power Forecasts
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- Researchers Propose Novel Approaches for Improved Microgrid Management
- Plant-Based Substitute for Fossil Fuels Developed for Plastic Foams
Monday, January 27, 2025
Friday, January 24, 2025
- Peeling Back the Layers: Exploring Capping Effects on Nickelate Superconductivity
- New Design Makes Aluminum Batteries Last Longer
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- New Research Uncovers Exotic Electron Crystal in Graphene
- Researchers Unlock New Insights Into Tin-Based Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
- Compact Comb Lights the Way for Next-Gen Photonics
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
- Can DNA-Nanoparticle Motors Get Up to Speed With Motor Proteins?
- New Paper Creates Roadmap for the Next Generation of Bioelectronic Medicine
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- A New Optical Memory Platform for Super Fast Calculations
- Researchers Make Comfortable Materials That Generate Power When Worn
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
- Researchers Unlock New Insights Into Tellurene, Paving the Way for Next-Gen Electronics
- Floating Solar Panels Could Support US Energy Goals
- Diamond Continues to Shine: New Properties Discovered in Diamond Semiconductors