It's wonderfully exciting to think about the potential for harvesting humans for their energy--an idea made famous by the movie The Matrix. But leave it to science to ruin a perfectly good movie. As ...

An experimentator has used waste heat of his body to turn humans into batteries. Nick Zetta, who runs Basically Homeless YouTube channel, turned himself into a battery using thermoelectric generators.

The Matrix machines powered their civilization with human batteries. That premise wasn’t entirely science fiction. There are countless ways we can generate electricity. We’re all basically breathing ...

The Matrix showed us a future where humans are used to power the biggest simulation ever, but is that really possible? Kyle plugs in to find out on this week’s Because Science!

TBILISI, Feb 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a move that will give chills to fans of the dystopian movie "The Matrix", scientists have developed a wearable device that could use the human body to ...

Ever since you first saw "The Matrix" you've developed a morbid fear of becoming a battery. Some mornings, you wake in a clammy sweat and check to make sure there aren't any cables connected to your ...

When looking at The Matrix film series, it is easy to imagine the Machines as the true antagonists of the series. After all, they have imprisoned countless humans in a virtual reality so their ...