Sam England and Daniel Robert, biologists at the University of Bristol, report that at least three types of caterpillars are capable of sensing and responding to an electrostatic field generated by a ...

A breakthrough by researchers at The University of Manchester sheds light on one of nature's most elusive forces, with wide-reaching implications for medicine, energy, climate modeling and more. The ...

Electrostatics and electrodynamics together describe the behaviour of electric charges, fields and their interaction with matter over both static and time‐varying regimes. In electrostatics, ...

Inertial-electrostatic-confinement (IEC) systems provide an economical and technologically straightforward means to produce fusion reactions in a table-top device. IEC devices confine a plasma in a ...

Hardly a person hasn’t experienced the sudden, sharp discharge of static electricity, especially on a crisp winter’s day. It usually requires a touch, though, the classic example being a spark from ...

Atoms are composed of three particles with an electric charge: electrons, protons and uncharged neutrons. Electrons have a negative charge, and protons have a positive charge. The negative charge of ...

We must be conscious of the fact that there are no safe places outdoors with nearby thunderstorms and probably the most dangerous lightning strikes are the first ones hitting ground. They catch people ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight – Application Note) Most of the material properties investigated by atomic force microscopy AFM are acquired by processing the deflection signal of the cantilever as depicted in ...