A new model reveals how cosmic electrons and X-rays trigger lightning, solving a decades-old mystery about what starts a lightning strike.

Photoelectric feedback discharges initiate lightning with no constrains on densities or physical origin of seed runaway ...

The ultrafast placement of an electron in a polar liquid generates collective molecular vibrations in a spherical nano-volume ...

A new study shows lightning begins with cosmic rays from space, uncovering how storms create the energy behind Earth’s most ...

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We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...

A new microscope reveals how heat, not just light, drives electricity inside ultrathin solar chips - reshaping solar design ...

Magnets, beyond simple decorations, are vital to numerous technologies shaping our lives. From medical devices and electric ...

The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to those in the baby Universe. A team of physicists Led by Florian Grussie of the ...

Discover how researchers at the University of Illinois are rethinking battery design by manipulating electrical double layers ...

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. It uses magnetic and electric fields to speed up charged particles like protons or ions to very high speeds. This allows the particles to collide with ...

A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a ...