Potential energy is stored energy. Potential energy is the energy that exists by virtue of the relative positions (configurations) of the objects within a physical system. This form of energy has the ...

Ammonia, used in fertilizer, is essential to our lives. Addis Energy is trying to make the chemical underground. Forget massive steel tanks—some scientists want to make chemicals with the help of ...

Potential energy is the energy stored of position by an object. It is a type of energy that can be converted to other forms and related to some attractive or pushing forces. Gravitational potential ...

Combustion engines, the engines in gas-powered cars, only use a quarter of the fuel’s potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust. Now, a study published in ACS Applied Materials & ...

Fitness trackers powered by sweat. Bluetooth earphones than run on atmospheric humidity. Stick-on insulin sensors fuelled by thin air. These are some of the potential applications of what have been ...

Editor’s note: The following column was co-authored by Alex Johnson, a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. Editor’s note: The following column was co-authored by Alex Johnson, a post-doctoral ...

JONNY NELSON: Energy. There are lots of different types and lots of different ways of storing it. Chemical energy in a sparkler, elastic potential energy that fires a toy into the air, and many, many ...

UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to produce biodiesel from waste oil that both simplifies the process and requires relatively mild heat. This discovery has the potential to make the ...

It should be clear that our world runs on energy. Driving your car, washing your clothes, heating your house, and even running your computer (so you can read this post)—these things all require energy ...

There are four waves of economic potential that will follow the U.S. shale boom, according to The Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW), but the difference between a tsunami and a small ripple depends on U.S.