Sure, there’s Elf on the Shelf, but what has more holiday spirit than an eel in a tank? At least, one specific eel, anyway. Miguel Wattson, an electric eel living at Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, ...

Scientists are always on the lookout for safer, more natural ways to power devices that go into our bodies. After all, who really needs toxic battery elements and replacement surgery? One organism ...

Crocodiles are apex predators built for power, speed, and ambush, but even they can make a dangerous miscalculation. When one ...

For decades, the dream of motorists all over the world has been a car that could run on frothy buckets of cheap, garbage fish like tilapia or something. So far, though, that dream has eluded humankind ...

An energy source inspired by the electric eel has been created by researchers in Switzerland and the US. The system mimics the thousands of thin “electrocyte” cells found in the animal, which it uses ...

The worlds first synthetic battery called a “voltaic stack” was developed by Alessandro Volta, an Italian scientist in 1799. The incredible body of the electric eel inspired Volta's stack of zinc and ...

Not even a blackout could put a damper on festivities at one Japanese aquarium where an electric eel is being used to light up its Christmas tree. Two aluminum panels inside the eel's tank work as ...

Sometimes used by aquariums and zoos to light Christmas trees, electric eels are teaching scientists how to create bio-batteries that can keep your implantable medical devices functioning forever ...

A flexible and transparent power source inspired by the electric eel could be used to power electrical devices in the body, such as cardiac pacemakers, implantable sensors or even prosthetic organs.