You don't need to be an electrician to understand the basics about how your home is wired. A general understanding of how cables and wires work is part of being a responsible homeowner, and our ...

Researchers have modeled a new route to molecular wires suitable for use in miniature electronics. Consumer demand continually pushes the electronics industry to design smaller devices. Now ...

Physicists from Stanford University say they have just invented the world's narrowest electrical wire, just three atoms wide, using diamandoids (the smallest component parts of a diamond) to do so.

Giving new meaning to the phrase “lightning bug,” scientists have come up with a way to get bacteria to produce infinitesimal wires capable of conducting useful amounts of electricity. The work, by ...