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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 forgot to plug in the

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Researchers in the US and the UK are developing ways to generate electricity from the air by creating new technologies.

A research team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has successfully generated energy out of thin air. How it started: The team first discovered the possibility in 2018 while working on a sensor for air humidity. Senior author Jun Yao told the Guardian that it all started when a student forgot to plug in the sensor’s power.