The reactor under construction at Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Devens, Mass., is one of at least 43 private-industry ...

Professional astronomers don't make discoveries by looking through an eyepiece like you might with a backyard telescope. Instead, they collect digital images in massive cameras attached to large ...

The populists and the tech right competed to supply the GOP’s new policy. The president has picked the least-attractive ideas from each.

U.S. researchers invented the electric vehicle battery, but Chinese companies have swallowed up the business of making them.

Scientists believe Michigan may be an abundant source of what could become the next big thing in carbon-free energy.

Although, this was not a key invention on the road to a full ... also electrified the London Underground) built the first production electric car. Parker powered his car using his own specially ...

The boys decided to find a salty refrigeration technique after hearing how challenging it was to bring COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas without electricity. Their invention, which they call ...

Electrothrix yaqonensis—a cable bacteria discovered along the ... But the very first investigations into the wonders of electricity were biological in origin. Thales of Miletus (considered ...

proving static electricity and lightning were one and the same. However, it was by no means when this phenomenon was first "discovered." Little did Franklin know that there would eventually ...

In 1832, William Sturgeon invented the first electric motor that could power a machine. Thomas Davenport patented a direct-current (DC) electric motor in 1837. The rechargeable lead-acid battery ...