Connecting a battery across the front of the head can boost verbal skills, says a team from the US National Institutes of Health. A current of two thousandths of an ampere (a fraction of that needed to power a digital watch) applied

Nissan is seeking permission to build a wind farm in the middle of its Sunderland plant. The car maker proposes to power the factory with seven wind turbines, capable of producing enough electricity to power the equivalent of 2,600 homes. Nissan said

Firefighters averted disaster at a Norfolk power plant by stopping fire spreading to tonnes of chicken litter when an electrical fault caused a wooden walkway to burst into flames. Firefighters spent two hours in the fuel hall at the FibroWatt plant at

A team from the universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Liverpool has discovered a safe way of storing and releasing hydrogen to produce energy. The researchers have found a way to inject the gas at high pressure into tiny pores – of

Following new research data from Hawaii that shows an acceleration in the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the chairman of the CIBSE Carbon Task Group, Terry Wyatt, said: “Climate change is a reality and these new findings suggest that the

Vast numbers of people are querying the accuracy of their energy bills, according to a UK gas and electricity watchdog, with suppliers receiving around 60 million phone calls a year. energywatch has said about a third of customers contact their suppliers every