Tag: electrical grid
How do superconductors work? A physicist explains what it means to...
Mishkat Bhattacharya, Rochester Institute of Technology
The modern world runs on electricity, and wires are what carry that electricity...
A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and...
David Wallace, Mississippi State University
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The...
Why do different countries have different electric outlet plugs?
Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
The nuclear industry is making a big bet on small power...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Until now, generating nuclear power has required massive facilities surrounded by acres of buildings, electrical infrastructure, roads, parking lots...
Why the offshore wind industry is about to take off
Matthew Lackner, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts Amherst
There are only five wind turbines operating in U.S. waters today. But...
Now that Russia has apparently hacked America’s grid, shoring up security...
Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
Hackers taking down the U.S. electricity grid may sound like a plot ripped from a Bruce Willis action movie,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
