There are two main types of electrical current that flow through your home: Alternating and direct. The vast majority of devices around you are powered by alternating current. By allowing electrons to ...

It sounds like a school experiment, but the potato battery still fascinates scientists and students alike. By inserting two ...

Electricity powers everything from your phone to your refrigerator—but have you ever wondered how it’s controlled inside a ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

A technological battle burned hot between these two geniuses and their competing visions for the future of electricity.

Since even employees who indirectly work with electricity can be at risk, employers and workers need to take steps to prevent electricity-related injuries and fatalities on job sites. Did you know ...

After a year of trial and error, Liyang Chen had managed to whittle down a metallic wire into a microscopic strand half the width of an E.coli bacterium — just thin enough to allow a trickle of ...