For a hydrogen atom, the upward pull of this electric field is 10.6 times stronger than gravity pulling downward, said Alex Glocer, a NASA physicist and co-author of the study. Advertisement ...

This animation shows how the ambipolar electric field works. The most abundant gas in the lower atmosphere, the part we live in, is nitrogen (N2, shown around seven seconds).

Now, more than half a century later, NASA has finally recorded this theoretical field and measured a change in electric potential of only 0.55 volts, the correct amount needed to send ions at ...

The Earth's ambipolar electric field is a phenomenon that occurs in the ionosphere, the upper part of the Earth's atmosphere, where ions and electrons are present in significant quantities.

The discovery of the new vortex electric field in the twisted bilayer has also created a 2D quasicrystal, potentially enhancing future electronic, magnetic and optical devices.