New quantum tunneling application captures electricity from Earth's heat

Using quantum tunneling to harvest electricity from Earth’s radiant heat involves a specifically designed antenna that can identify this excess heat as high-frequency electromagnetic waves.

Protein can be switched on to conduct electricity like a metal

A research team got a lab result that even he couldn't quite believe. It goes against all conventional wisdom: the first evidence of a protein that could conduct electricity like a metal.

Physicists turn liquid into solid using an electric field

Physicists have predicted that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature and pressure conditions that correspond to liquid droplets at field-free conditions. This electric-field-induced phase transformation is termed electrocrystallization.

Discovery opens the door to generating electricity from microbes

The molecular structure of the proteins that enable bacterial cells to transfer electrical charge has been discovered by scientists at the University of East

Electric thinking cap? flash of fresh insight by electrical brain stimulation

Are we on the verge of being able to stimulate the brain to see the world anew -- an electric thinking cap? Researchers suggests that this could be the case.

Breakthrough in converting heat waste to electricity: automotive, chemical, brick and glass industries could benefit from discovery

Researchers have placed nanocrystals of strontium telluride into lead telluride, creating a material that can harness electricity from heat-generating items such as vehicle exhaust systems, industrial processes and equipment and sun light more efficiently than scientists have seen in the past.