A new floating droplet electricity generator is redefining how rain can be harvested as a clean power source by using water itself as both structural support and an electrode. This nature-integrated ...

Japanese researchers at Kyoto University announced in December 2025 that they invented a coin-sized generator that creates 24/7 electricity "out of thin air." In December 2025, Facebook users shared a ...

MoSi 2 demonstrates clear and large transverse thermopower, establishing itself as a promising candidate for developing efficient transverse thermoelectric devices. Thermoelectric conversion devices ...

Often associated with refreshing a sense of being renewed and a peaceful calmness, raindrops may soon become tiny engines of clean energy. Researchers at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and ...

Electric-power production is a conservative business; it makes electricity just as it did more than a century ago—by driving copper wires through magnetic fields. That is all that happens in the huge, ...

Inspired by the classic drinking bird toy, scientists have developed an engine that efficiently converts energy from water evaporation into electricity to power small electronics. The device produces ...

Good ideas sometimes take surprising turns. For years, experts at Empa had been working on an innovative valve control system for combustion engines with electro-hydraulically actuated valves, which ...

Like the oldtime housewife who used to hitch the cradle to her rocking chair, letting the motion of the chair rock the baby, U.S. airplane motormakers last week were harnessing airplane engines to ...