New research from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with The Ohio State University and Amphenol Corporation, challenges conventional understanding about ...

When we hear about moving objects with electricity, most of us imagine a "pulling force." Positive and negative charges ...

Scientists have shown that lightning-like bursts can be recreated in small blocks of solid materials in the lab.

As the Parker Solar Probe ventures closer to the sun, we are learning new things about our home star. In a new study, physicists led by the University of Iowa report the first definitive measurements ...

Understand the fundamentals of electrostatics with this Electric Field Due to a Charged Rod Physics Problem Explained video. In this lesson, we break down how a charged rod generates an electric field ...

This remarkable miniature rotorcraft is so lightweight and efficient that it can lift its own mass given nothing but sunlight. The entire thing weighs about as much as four paperclips, and it can fly ...

Those electric fields are theorized to play an important role in forming a precise environment in active sites where molecules react and rapidly transition to new molecules. Now a study co-led by ...