A new way of generating clean power could run your lights with rain. Hydropower typically relies on the movement of water to create electricity through mechanical energy, such as spinning turbines in ...

Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much more ...

Imagine we had cheap and abundant energy. Some radical ideas are actually within our reach.

Small, everyday actions to minimize water use add up the more people do them. By Anna Diamond Michael Kimmelman’s recent story on Los Angeles’s water needs included a surprising fact: The city has ...