Meet an electric eel at the Houston Zoo! It sends out electrical pulses to find food. Meet an electric eel at the Houston Zoo! Although it is called an eel, it is actually a relative of the catfish.

As the world’s need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace current battery technology with something better. Italian physicist ...

Most of us have probably used a 9-volt battery. They power small household items such as clocks, smoke detectors, and toys. Now think about what you could power with 860 volts. It’s 95 times the ...

A newly-identified eel living in the Amazon basin can deliver record-breaking electric jolts, according to a study published Tuesday. Researchers at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History ...

It’s no secret that electric eels stun their prey—accounts of such occurrences date back centuries. But unless you work security on the starship Enterprise, “stun” is a vague term. What really happens ...