Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from Singapore have developed a clever way to turn raindrops into electricity - enough to power 12 LEDs for 20 seconds ...

A team at Nanjing Forestry University has turned balsa wood into a solar heat battery. By infusing lightweight balsa ...

Once darkness falls, solar panels stop generating electricity, creating a gap between when energy is produced and when it’s ...

A stream of compressed air does not look like a power source. In factories, it usually hisses through pipes, drives tools, then disappears as waste. But under the right conditions, that same airflow ...

Every day, vast quantities of rain fall across the planet. Until now, all that energy has simply gone to waste. But scientists may have found a clever new way to tap into this overlooked natural ...

A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major ...

Fusion energy is the process of forcing two hydrogen atoms to combine and form one helium atom, which releases huge amounts of energy. Type One Energy, a startup in Tennessee, claims to have proven ...

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 ...