"When Lightning Strikes" by Kay and Bobby Brunson is the story of a man struck by lightning and visiting heaven for 28 minutes.

Researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report that they have found a way to convert mechanical energy into electricity using viruses.

The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee (http://fand.kaist.ac.kr/) from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST, has developed new forms of low cost, large-area nanogenerator technology using the piezoelectric ceramic nanoparticles.

The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection by researchers at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory of ferroelectric properties in an amino acid called glycine.

TAMPA, Fla., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A report released late last week by Z. A. Hartono and I.