Scientists in the U.S. have developed a groundbreaking silicone variant that can conduct electricity, overturning the ...

If you think about it, that isn’t such a strange question. We talk about electrical current — just like current in a stream. Many introductory books on electricity try to relate voltage to ...

Water drops produce electricity when dripped through a small tube. That power might be harnessed as renewable energy in rainy places.

Harnessing energy from falling rain has the potential to generate huge amounts of electricity. If rain falls into a tube ...

An electric current can flow in the wire from one end of the battery to the other, but nothing useful happens. The wire just gets very hot and the battery loses stored internal energy – it ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen ...

When an electric current passes through a metal wire, a magnetic field forms around that wire (see diagram at right). Likewise, a wire passing through a magnetic field creates an electric current ...

In Morse's original design, the receiving device used an electromagnet, powered by the electric current in the circuit, to raise and lower a pen which made marks on a moving strip of paper.

Sense resistors are used to measure how much current is passing through the MOSFETs (and therefore the load), the MCP4921 Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) from microchip is used to set the curren ...