Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered new materials and a new process that could advance the ever-escalating quest to ...

O smotic energy, created by the difference in salinity between river water and seawater, is emerging as a promising source of ...

For more than a century, scientists have relied on separate tools to measure the three core building blocks of electricity: volts, ohms, and amps. Each describes a different piece of how electricity ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have found new materials and methods to create smaller, faster, and more affordable microchips used ...

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.

It took a lot of people to create the light bulb. But a process of mythmaking has flattened one man and elevated him to ...

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

Playwright Tom Stoppard, in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," provides one of the best definitions of science: "The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defense against the ...

A Japanese research team has evaluated the affordability of photovoltaic-battery systems featuring heat-pump water heaters and air conditioning units across nine regions of Japan. They analyzed three ...

Trump has systematically demoralized the workforce responsible for enforcing the regulations that remain. That's the observation of David Weil, a labor expert at Brandeis University whose nomination ...

A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it’s feasible is another matter.