electricity

The “wound current” has intrigued scientists for more than a century. It could turn out to be the key to healing catastrophic injuries.

Small charges carried by individual insects can add up, a study finds, with larger swarms generating substantial electrical fields.

Low-intensity electrical stimulation allows older adults to better recall a list of words for at least a month following the treatment, a study finds, providing further evidence for the debated idea that electrical stimulation can enhance cognitive performance.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln entomologist wants to help pave the way for creating environmentally friendly tools to replace insecticides to control agricultural pests.

Cable bacteria can live in stirred-up sediments by associating with structures built by Chaetopterus variopedatus.

The utility company PG&E has cut electricity to much of the Bay Area as a preventive measure.

A new portable instrument could help to lure useful bugs in from the wild.

Scientists have manipulated the electrical signals that help guide flatworms in regenerating their body parts to encourage a flatworm to grow two heads.

Studying electrical communication in the wild requires braving the Amazon jungle with sensitive equipment.

The pause on campus operations, which could last a month, is just one example of the hurricane’s devastation.

Electrical shocks cause a physiological stress response in invertebrates previously thought incapable of feeling pain.

An animal behavior professor argues that crabs and lobsters respond to electrical shocks in a way that suggests discomfort.

Humans’ circadian clocks become skewed when they are exposed to electric lights but revert to a schedule more in tune with the sun when they go camping.

Individuals of a newly discovered microbe species line up end-to-end to form electron transport cables many times their length.

How an Italian scientist doing Frankenstein-like experiments on dead frogs discovered that the body is powered by electrical impulses.