P ower lines are a great place to look if you are in need of birds or shoes. It's not unusual to see a group of small birds, ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. — Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But that energy loss isn’t a given. Scientists at Penn ...

Electricity doesn’t flow the way most people imagine. Instead of electrons rushing through wires like water in a pipe, energy moves as an electromagnetic field surrounding the wire. The real current ...

When we think of things that conduct electricity, we usually picture copper wires or high-tech circuits, not living organisms. But researchers have just discovered something that flips that assumption ...