Electrical failures rarely arrive without warning. Long before a breaker trips or a fire starts, your outlets and circuits begin sending subtle signals that the system is under strain. If you learn to ...

The world’s largest flexible DC transformer uses advanced magnetic management and real-time monitoring to move power across 1 ...

Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of ...

As the story goes, the rock band AC/DC took its name from a label on an old sewing machine in the Young brothers’ home. It must have meant that the machine could run on either alternating-current or ...

The idea of creating direct current (DC) microgrids to yield efficiencies is gaining ground in the U.S. and Europe as more and more DC devices are added to homes and businesses. In fact, Current/OS ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

In the simplest of terms, an AC generator supplies power directly to a 120-volt circuit to run AC accessories throughout a boat, as well as charge the boat’s batteries (through an AC-to-­DC charger).

A Direct Current (DC) voltage source is a fundamental component in electrical and electronic circuits, providing a constant potential difference that drives unidirectional current flow. Unlike ...

A newly identified part of a brain circuit mixes sensory information, memories, and emotions to tell whether things are familiar or new, and important or just "background noise." Led by researchers ...