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Only wanted to make a simple humidity sensor but forgot to plug in the power  A boffin whose team discovered a way of creating electricity from t...

Remember those researchers who generated electricity from the energy in air humidity? "To be frank, it was an accident," the study's lead author, Prof Jun Yao, tells the Guardian: "We were actually interested in making a simple sensor for humidity in the air. But for whatever reason, the student who was working... read full story "We were actually interested in making a simple sensor for humidity in the air. But for whatever reason, the student who was working on that for...