While standard receptacles typically use three wires -- hot, neutral and ground -- you'll occasionally find 2-prong outlets in older homes. Since this type of outlet lacks a ground connection, the ...

For years, a team of experts has traveled from tiny town to tiny town in New Hampshire, helping the communities plan and ...

A new discovery shows that messy, stray light can be used to clean up quantum systems instead of disrupting them. University ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of ...

Researchers found a way to harness the fundamental properties of triboelectrification, which most people think of it as ...

Learn how to make a simple electric doorbell at home in this step-by-step tutorial. Using everyday materials like cardboard, a DC motor, battery, metal bowls, a clothespeg switch, and basic wiring, ...

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

Transmission lines are seen near a wind turbine at Alliant Energy's English Farms Wind Farm near Montezuma in rural Poweshiek County in 2022. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

USA TODAY Cars discussed GM Energy's future plans and new tech with the company's vice president Wade Sheffer. Sheffer explained that new GM Energy tech is part of an entire ecosystem built around the ...

Spirit World Tour, Sword II’s 2023 debut and one of The FADER’s best albums of that year, was a ferocious project that played with shoegaze textures and dream pop melodies, swirling indie rock history ...