Tag: Electricity
Biden’s ambitious energy plan faces headwinds, but can move the US...
Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
President-elect Joe Biden calls climate change an existential threat to America’s environment, health, national security and economy, and has...
Delinquent electric bills from the pandemic are coming due – who...
Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
The shutdowns and restrictions that governments have imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19 have made it hard for...
Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices
Julio M. D'Arcy, Washington University in St Louis
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
In my synthetic chemistry lab,...
Vibrators had a long history as medical quackery before feminists rebranded...
Kim Adams, New York University
In the contemporary moment of sex-positive feminism, praises for the orgasmic capacity of the vibrator abound. “They’re all-encompassing, a blanket...
What the battle over control of PG&E means for US utility...
Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
There’s a battle raging over the ownership of PG&E Corp., one of the nation’s largest utilities, with cities, hedge...
The public health benefits of adding offshore wind to the grid
Jonathan Buonocore, Harvard University
New plans to build two commercial offshore wind farms near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coasts have sparked a lot of...
Are public objections to wind farms overblown?
Jeremy Firestone, University of Delaware; Ben Hoen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Joseph Rand, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
While most surveys suggest that the public...
Nikola Tesla: The extraordinary life of a modern Prometheus
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
Match the following figures – Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Alfred Nobel and Nikola Tesla – with these biographical facts:
Spoke...
EXPLORING NATURE
What makes a true Santa is inside – and comes with...
Christina Hymer, University of Tennessee
When you picture Santa Claus, a white, bearded, overweight and jolly man who dashes...
