An electric current can flow in the wire from one end of the battery to the other, but nothing useful happens. The wire just gets very hot and the battery loses stored internal energy – it ...

If you think about it, that isn’t such a strange question. We talk about electrical current — just like current in a stream. Many introductory books on electricity try to relate voltage to ...

How cells utilize electric fields to guide their migration during embryonic development. As an embryo develops, cells ...

The Kirin Electric Salt Spoon at CES 2025 will add a salty taste to your food, though it shocks your tongue to do it.

Sense resistors are used to measure how much current is passing through the MOSFETs (and therefore the load), the MCP4921 Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) from microchip is used to set the curren ...

From a young age, most are taught electricity and water don’t mix. While there is certainly truth to this statement, there ...

Presented at CES 2025, a spoon from Japan makes it possible to enhance the salty and umami taste of low-sodium foods with the power of electricity.