[youtube BZZMrtC2wGs] (YouTube link)Fire ants are the geeks of the insect world. They seek out technology, particularly electric gadgets. And they have super powers, such as the ability to survive being cooked in a micro...

If you're photographer Robert Buelteman, you g...  ...Buelteman shocks the plants with 80,000 volts of electricity and then uses a fiber optic wire to light paint t...

(YouTube link) James Sheils marries science and...  ...e often) and explains the timeline of research on electricity in this animated TEDEducation talk. Along the way...

(YouTube link) You've heard the jokes about how a light saber resembles a bug zapper... Caleb Kraft decided that joke needed to be made real! Read more about how it was done at Hack A Day. Link -Thanks, Caleb!...

Airplanes are built to withstand bolts of lightning, because strikes on planes happen now and again. But in 1999, a glider soaring above Dunstable, England, was struck by a bolt out of the blue -literally, because the pl...

Awesomely terrifying or terrifying...  ...nches of lightning and 100,000 volts of electricity . Flickenger is adamant about the fact t...

(YouTube Link) I knew that the act of repairing...  ...te the dangerous work that goes in to keeping the electricity on tap for us all. --via Gizmodo

The folks are away, so it's time to party! Or so David Rowe's teenage daughter thought. How could her dad find out if he's hundreds of miles away? The geek way, of course, by measuring his hous...

(YouTube Link) What could possibly make a hat with a Tesla coil attached to the top even cooler? The Tesla coil plays the Mortal Kombat theme song, and the only thing that could make this hat cooler would be if it sho...

Who needs a generator when you've got the Nissan Leaf, an 100% electric car that can power your house for 2 days via the "Leaf-to-home" system, a converter that attaches to your home's electric panel and allows for the c...