When two materials come into contact, charged entities on their surfaces get a little nudge. This is how rubbing a balloon on the skin creates static electricity. Likewise, water flowing over some ...

A team of researchers has discovered a clever way to turn falling water droplets – like those from rain – into usable ...

Researchers from Singapore have developed a clever way to turn raindrops into electricity – enough to power 12 LEDs for 20 ...

Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it to create renewable ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, physicists observed a classic liquid phenomenon—capillary instability—in a quantum gas for ...

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allowing them to additionally gather energy from falling rain drops. We’d expect that the cost of this technology would need to come down considerably in order to be cost-competitive ...