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Over the millennia, the phenomenon known as electricity has meant different things to different people. In ancient societies, electricity—or more specifically lightning—was inspiration for some of the ...

America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago. Natural gas surpassed coal as the country’s top source of power in 2016, and renewables like wind and solar have grown quickly to ...

Electricity means the presence or motion of electrical charge. When the charge is moving from its source (origin) to sink ...