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

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

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

But if these solid particles have the same composition, what factor causes the charge to flow in a given direction? In a new study published in Nature, physicists from the Institute of Science and ...

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 ...

A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows molten rock, gases, and debris to escape from below the surface. The ...

Playing a has-been sitcom actress in search of her second act, she braved two seasons' worth of cruel indignities. Now Valerie Cherish is back for her most harrowing (and mortifying) battle yet — ...

Learn more about the nearly invisible layer of carbon that may control how dust grains become electrically charged and how that discovery could help future missions to the moon and Mars.

The spark that transfers a charge from one carbon particle to another, generating lightning and possibly life itself, is finally understood.

Someone asked “What’s your “I should’ve died but didn’t” story?” and people shared the experiences that really made them ...