Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...

Piezoelectric ceramic technology is gradually becoming an important technological route following microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and digital light control (DLC) due to its significant ...

Flexible composites-based piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) with low cost, stable properties and sensitivity to mechanical ...

The advantages of piezoelectric ceramic OCS should not be underestimated. Industry analysis indicates that this technology performs excellently in terms of system loss and switching speed, making it ...

Japanese scientists discover the molecular switch that lets the Venus flytrap sense touch.

Drums! You hit them, and they vibrate. It’s kind of fun. Piezoelectric elements can create electric current when they vibrate. [Will Dana] put two and two together to try and charge his ...

MIT scientists have unraveled the hidden energy balance of earthquakes by recreating them in the lab. Their findings show that while only a sliver of energy goes into the shaking we feel on the ...

While investigating everything from bizarre coincidences to ghoulish encounters, Sarah Knapton, our Science Editor, and Joe ...

Both iconic brands recently introduced new stoves designed for the backcountry—the Jetboil Zip and the MSR Switch—so I ...

It's taken more than 2.5 million years to get from the earliest sharpened-stone version of a knife to what Scott Heimendinger ...

Scientists have discovered that ordinary ice is a flexoelectric material, capable of generating electricity when bent or ...