If you happen to be driving round the back roads of Oakland late at night—and no, we’re not going to ask why—you might happen ...

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

Lab activities that practice investigation, modeling, data analysis, and design skills while learning more about animals and ...

New data from NASA’s almost-retired Juno orbiter has revealed that lightning bolts on Jupiter are significantly more powerful than previously thought.

Let’s talk about the science behind those bright flashes of lightning across the sky. Storm Clouds. Thunderstorm clouds have ...

The findings were published March 20 in the journal AGU Advances and were based on data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, ...

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

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

The spark that transfers a charge from one carbon particle to another, generating lightning and possibly life itself, is ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

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