The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

Researchers have uncovered a surprising phenomenon in the material BiNiO3: when subjected to high pressure at low ...

Listen to the full series on BBC Sounds. Charge is a property of a body which experiences a force in an electric field. Charge is measured in coulombs (C). Since electrons are so small and one ...

Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford oversaw ... equivalent to the positive charge of the atom) was less than the atomic mass (average mass of the atom).

Charge close chargeProperty of matter that causes a force when near another charge. Charge comes in two forms, positive and negative. For example, a negative charge causes a repulsive force on a ...