Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever ... Around 1748 Franklin began his electricity research, establishing electricity and meteorology as viable ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin ... bristled at Franklin’s supposed powers. All Europe seemed to believe he and his “electric wand ...

These simulations showed that bacteria could still survive and generate electricity by using the surrounding surface to ...

Mr. Cohen has written an introduction comprising chapters on Franklin and science, electricity before Franklin, Franklin's work in electricity and on the editions of Franklin's book. It is ...

A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could ...

To mark the occasion, a Boston art collective called Silence Dogood (its name a tip of the hat to one of Benjamin Franklin’s pseudonyms ... The group is finding ways to both react to events ...

A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating ...

Having swept aside Parker’s men, the British advanced on Concord, arriving at 7:00 a.m. Finding the town deserted ... depicted in cartoons since Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 “Albany Plan ...

Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Medgar Evers, David Farragut, the Marquis de La Fayette, Mary Fields, Henry Ford, George Fox, Aretha Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Milton Friedman ...

When Republicans took control of Congress in 1947, they were still angry that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had won a fourth term in 1944, and they set out to pass a constitutional amendment to ...

A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin identified how these bacteria expel electrons externally. The new study offers a glimpse into a previously hidden ...