Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory announced today that they have observed a rare property in a special class of metals called multiferroics: they have both magnetic and electr...

Nikola Tesla was born in what is now Croatia on Ju...  ...ntury than Nikola Tesla. As one of the Fathers of Electricity , Tesla did groundbreaking work on alternating cur...  ...machine that could topple buildings, ways to send electricity through the upper atmosphere, force-fields to pro...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have cr...  ...is "multiferroic composite" can convert heat into electricity ! In this case, the new alloy — Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10...  ...ticle/2011-06/new-alloy-can-convert-heat-directly- electricity -via reddit

Photo: Murdo MacleodWhisky. Is there anything it c...  ...h economy, and now whisky is to be used to create electricity for homes in a new bioenergy venture involving so...  ...burn the draff with woodchips to generate enough electricity to supply 9,000 homes. It will be supplied by Aal...

Forget the water hose! Firefighters of the future may simply "zap" fire out of existence with an electric wand:Currently, firefighters use water, foam, powder, and other substances to tame flames. But a team fr...

(Break.com link) And you thought your home wiring was weird! Caution -don't try this at home, or anywhere else. -via reddit...

The exoskeleton of the oriental hornet is a solar...  ...llector and generator that converts sunlight into electricity ! A team led by Marian Plotkin of Tel-Aviv Univers...  ...roperties, but don't know why the insects produce electricity . Their research revealed that pigments in the ho...  ...sues trap light,...

(YouTube link) Kazuhiko Minawa of the Enoshima Aquarium in Japan developed a method of powering Christmas tree lights using an electric eel. Since at least 2007, his idea has been put to use in a local shopping cent...

Psst! Wanna be better at math? The answer may be s...  ...y simple: just give your noggin a little jolt!The electricity generated by a 9-volt battery might be all there...  ...the University of Oxford, suspected that a little electricity directed at the right parietal lobe – a bra...

Want to relieve yourself in front of John O'Connor's shop? Urine for a shock of your life. Tired of having his property urinated upon by drunken revelers, the peeved shopkeeper decided to take the laws into his own h...