This week’s experiment with Lydia from the Discovery Center Museum puts a little bit of a spin on the classic ‘cloud in a bottle’ trick. By using simple materials from home, she ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...

Many substances display crystallization, allowing them to keep adding to a basic shape to reach pretty humongous proportions. Although we usually tend to think of pretty stones that get fashioned ...

Two microscopic grains collide and produce a tiny spark. This phenomenon may have provided the energy to kick off life on Earth. But if these solid particles have the same composition, what factor ...