Designers can make useful products that include electrical components close electrical componentA device in an electric circuit, such as a battery, switch or lamp.. They allow a product to have lights ...

Caio Seguin has received funding from the University of Melbourne. Andrew Zalesky receives funding from the Rebecca L. Cooper Foundation, the NHMRC and the ARC. University of Melbourne provides ...

Use this fun, interactive activity to talk about how conductive materials allow electricity to flow freely, while insulating materials make it slow down or stop. This experiment was developed by ...

Electricity flow is generally invisible, silent, and not something that most humans want to touch, so understanding how charge moves around can be fairly unintuitive at first. There are plenty of ...

The water trickled, and the lights blinked on. In a new study, researchers in Singapore describe a way to turn falling water into electricity using nothing more than droplets, a narrow plastic tube, ...