Researchers are going back to Thomas Edison's old nickel-iron battery design more than 100 years later to make a new, high-performance way to store en.

Thomas Edison Charter School’s northern robotics team — the Robo Eagles — earned two top-three placements at the Utah FIRST LEGO League State Championship Saturday at the Beehive Science and ...

Edison’s original design took an extremely long time to charge, which ultimately limited its use. But the modern version, created by a group of scientists that includes researchers from the University ...

The batteries last more than 12,000 charge cycles, making them a competitive storage method that could one day dethrone lithium-ion alternatives.

Students from Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School competed in the New Jersey State Science Olympiad Finals. (All photos Courtesy of TEECS). The Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School Science ...

State Rep. Margaret Croke said she was confident late Tuesday that she would prevail in a tightly contested race to become ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that ...

Did one of history’s most famous inventions quietly create the superstar material of modern clean tech more than a century ahead of its time? A new materials science study suggests that the carbon ...

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Thomas Alva Edison reminds us that failures and unexpected outcomes are not useless, but valuable opportunities to learn, ...

Each week on “Watch Mr. Wizard,” Don Herbert used household objects to conduct an easily replicated experiment that ...

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the extreme conditions created inside Edison’s carbon filament bulbs in those ...