A science experiment tests whether electrical induction from power lines is strong enough to light a bulb, explaining the physics behind what’s actually happening.

Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.

Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it. The answer: it burns ...

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

Ball milling liquid metal with natural plant compounds produces a black powder that purifies seawater and generates ...

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LED bulbs come with big promises: Save lots of money on energy bills, get more customization over lighting and your lights will last for years without needing to be replaced. Most of those are true, ...

Kochi/Chennai: Neema Veliyath lives in her nearly 100-year-old heritage home, also a homestay, on Vypin Island, off mainland Ernakulam. As a long-time resident, she knows arriving by water is the best ...

Water trapped in between molecules behaves differently than free-flowing water, as it holds more energy. Researchers found that when another molecule displaces that water, the energy that the water ...

The study presents convincing quantitative evidence, supported by appropriate negative controls, for the presence of low-abundance glycine receptors (GlyRs) within inhibitory synapses in telencephalic ...