We posted a comic about people charging their mobi...  ...hat glorious day. Sony is building a new kind of power outlet that raises a not entirely pleasant prospe...  ...blackouts by intelligently regulating the use of power . Announced by Sony last month, and demonstrate...

(YouTube link) In 2008, Czech master glassblower Michal Zahradník built a steam engine entirely out of glass! There are no seals here, just snug-fitting glass. This is a replica of an early locomotive steam engine de...

(YouTube link) This ad shows how efficient Sn...  ...agon processors are by inferring that they can be powered by insects. And if you care about cruelty to bugs...

Why are pencil-pusher bureaucrat...  ...The Destructive Nature of Power Without Status, concludes that people...  ...ncludes that people in positions with power but low social status often use their authority...  ...to demean others.The lesson is not just that *strong class="mat...

Who needs a generator when you've got the Niss...  ...ot the Nissan Leaf, an 100% electric car that can power your house for 2 days via the "Leaf-to-home" syst...  ...lows for the car's lithium-ion battery to provide power when it may be otherwise unavailable.With the peo...

The exoskeleton of the oriental hornet is a solar...  ...tkin of Tel-Aviv University discovered the wasp's power plant properties, but don't know why the insects...

Everyone talks about alternative energy these days but mostly in terms of water, wind and solar. What about cars, cows and tornados?To meet our future energy requirements, we need to rely on a huge range of alternative s...