It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy ...

Experiment with high voltage as a 1 million volt generator charges water and cola with electricity. Watch lightning form ...

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This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

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The original story “ Physicists solved a decades-old mystery about static electricity ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

A 17-year-old whose science experiment led to a massive probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and hazardous materials response in his Irvine neighborhood broke his silence Tuesday, saying ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Other teams are investigating how surface area and velocity during impact might govern charge transfer, and how the breaking ...