Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new ...

For decades, researchers have explored how electrons behave in quantum materials. Under certain conditions, electrons ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

Some trees don’t just survive lightning – they thrive on it. Scientists studying Panama’s tropical forests have discovered that Dipteryx oleifera trees often benefit from lightning strikes that ...

Mars has always captured the imagination of space explorers, and now new findings are showing that the Red Planet’s dust devils might be even more dangerous than we thought. These familiar whirlwinds ...

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...

LENOX — They say lightning never strikes the same place twice. At the Electric Power Research Institute’s Transmission and Distribution Laboratory, lightning strikes as many times as it likes — just ...

Sarah Eccles-Smith suffered an electric shock inside her house when lightning struck her home as she flicked a light switch. About 46,000 lightning strikes hit South Australia during storms on ...

The measure of this separation within a system is referred to as the dipole moment. A polarized dielectric material. Source: Papa November/Wikimedia Commons Electric polarization of a substance is ...

this is almost $10k more expensive than when the F-150 Lightning was first launched for the 2022 model year. All-wheel-drive electric cars like this, the 2025 BMW i5, have buckets of appeal ...

A woman has been taken to hospital after being struck by lightning during severe thunderstorms in South Australia's South East overnight. Emergency services were called to Rocky Camp just before ...

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