It turns out that the familiar ground-shaking is only a small portion (10%) of the total energy released. While a tiny ...

Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...

Nuclear fusion promises a green and infinitely renewable supply of energy—if we can harness it. Fusion happens all the time ...

Imagine generating power not from sunlight or wind, but from the simple mixing of fresh and salt water. This is the quiet ...

Ice generates electricity as a response to stress when it bends. Experiments with pure and saline ice found that with enough ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can ...

The transverse Thomson effect is observed for the first time: current, heat, and magnetic fields generate controlled cooling ...

Physicist Peter Littlewood is the founding chair of the Faraday Institution, which was set up in 2017 as the UK’s “virtual national laboratory” for energy storage science and technology. He speaks to ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...