How did we first discover electricity? In this video, we build the early device that first helped us harness and understand this powerful force: the electrostatic generator!

For employees, a declared holiday is a chance to rest, spend time with family, or do personal errands. However, for Kolvin Canilang, clerical aide of the Lingayen Tourism Office in Lingayen, ...

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.

The banging on the door at 3 in the morning of March 12, 1938, by Gestapo agents was fierce. They were rousing Otto Loewi out of bed to drag him off to jail. His crime? Loewi was Jewish. It didn’t ...

QNET's HomePure Zayn air purifier offers a six-stage filtration system, including an Ultra-Plasma Ion Filter and HPP+ Filter, claiming to eliminate 99.8% of airborne particulates. Validated for ...

A thin sheet of nylon does not look like much on its own. But in lab tests, a film made by researchers at RMIT University kept generating electricity after being folded, stretched, and even run over ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a methodology to simulate the currents and fields during an air discharge electrostatic discharge (ESD) into a product by combining a linear description of the behavior ...

Worried about winter weather interfering with your Starlink service? Don't be. I've spent a bunch of winters relying on SpaceX's satellite internet; here's how to keep connected all through the white.

Abstract: In this paper, a new method for modeling converter-based power generators in ac-distributed systems is proposed. It is based on the concept of electrostatic synchronous machines. With this ...

Professor Jeong-Min Baik’s research group of the School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering of Sungkyunkwan University has, for the first time in the world, developed a reusable ...