In a world chasing cleaner energy, a group of physicists may have uncovered a surprising new way to make power: by tapping ...

Strange metals have baffled scientists for decades, but a new breakthrough from Rice University researchers offers a major clue: at a specific quantum tipping point, electrons in these materials ...

A controversial device that most scientists said was impossible has successfully generated electricity from the Earth's ...

If one side of a conducting or semiconducting material is heated while the other remains cool, charge carriers move from the ...

In this new environment, planning and constructing transmission must include “future-proofing”: upgrading the grid of today ...

It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...

The new $134 million facility will produce high-capacity power lines needed to expand the power grid to meet increasing ...

Across the country, where Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in infrastructure construction, we’ve hired many ...

Traditional alternating current (AC) transmission systems face limitations in their abilities to handle the variability of ...

A controversial new study has claimed that it is possible to generate electricity using the Earth's rotation, its magnetic ...

Metals, as most know them, are good conductors of electricity. That's because the countless electrons in a metal like gold or ...

Measuring shot noise without external influences is not easy. In a metal, the vibration of the atoms’ lattice can push ...