This article was originally published with the title “Nonuniform Electric Fields” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 203 No. 6 (December 1960), p. 106 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1260-106 ...

Electric fields are strong enough to trigger ballooning even when there's no wind. Erica Morley and Daniel Robert of the University of Bristol, UK have been studying the ways spiders move with ...

Glass embedded with electric-field-driven electrodes removes dust from its surface without water or scrubbing, offering a ...

T. J. Lewis, Electron Energy Distributions in Uniform Electric Fields and the Townsend Ionization Coefficient, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, ...

Jun 19, 2025 Soft robots morph and move under external electric fields with no internal wiring (w/video) A soft electroactive gel enables untethered robots to deform, grip, and move using only ...

To measure these tough-to-see electric fields and study their influence on hetero­geneous catalytic reactions, Thejas S. Wesley, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, and Yogesh Surendranath of the Massachusetts ...

Then, a few years ago, Sutton and his colleagues showed that bumblebees could sense electric fields in the air. "There is, all the time, a background electric field in the atmosphere," says Sutton.

Scientists found that dolphins have an ability to sense electric fields, which may help them hunt and navigate the seas. By Carolyn Wilke Newborn bottlenose dolphins sport a row of hairs along the ...