At the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, five eels live in the Amazon Rising habitat, where probes in the water sense their electricity and transmit their energy to a lightbar and a speaker. At any given ...

A recent email inquiring if an electric eel can kill a person jolted my memory and I recalled an encounter I wrote about several years ago. I was 11 years old, behind the scenes at the Fort Worth ...

The electric eel, with its thoroughly appropriate scientific name, Electrophorus electricus, can knock your socks off by delivering more than 600 volts. When one of these large eels sends out an ...

The electric eel, with its thoroughly appropriate scientific name, Electrophorus electricus, can knock your socks off by delivering more than 600 volts. When one of these large eels sends out an ...

Electric eels inspire novel “jelly” batteries for soft robotics, wearables Another team built a lithium-ion battery with electrolyte layer that expands by 5,000%.

Ampaire says the clever first-gen hybrid powertrain in its Electric Eel demonstrator cuts fuel consumption by 50-70%, and it's just logged a world record for endurance. SUBSCRIBE.

The 860 volts of charge that an electric eel can produce in a shock is enough to change the genetic makeup of fish around it. Just check on the zebra fish in a recent Japanese experiment to see it ...

Life Electric eel zaps can genetically modify other nearby animals. Scientists use electricity to make cells take up DNA – and the same process could happen in nature thanks to electric eels ...

The electric eel is the biggest power-making creature on Earth. It can release up to 860 volts, which is enough to run a machine. In a recent study, a research group from Nagoya University in Japan ...

A study has found that an electric eel’s discharge is strong enough to transfer genetic material from the environment into the cells of nearby animals. The finding suggests that electric eels ...