Nanotechnology is quietly rewriting the rules of how small machines get their power, turning the ambient vibrations, motion ...

Discover how a new lead-free piezoelectric material could help power sensors, medical implants and flexible electronics in the future.

A new impact-based design turns gentle everyday motion into bursts of electricity, greatly boosting the power output of ...

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a harmless, genetically-modified virus that's piezoelectric -- in other words, it generates electricity when ...

AMES, Iowa – Money doesn’t grow on trees, but electricity might someday. Iowa State University scientists have built a device that mimics the branches and leaves of a cottonwood tree and generates ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

A technology that converts weak magnetic fields generated around power transmission lines into electricity has been developed by a domestic research ...