When a solid and a liquid come into contact, charged entities on both sides push one another apart. This phenomenon is known as charge separation, and it creates an electric double layer—a layer each ...

Over the millennia, the phenomenon known as electricity has meant different things to different people. In ancient societies, electricity—or more specifically lightning—was inspiration for some of the ...

Zaps of static electricity are commonplace in everyday life. But can static electricity give enough of a jolt to start a fire? Static electricity is the result of an imbalance between negative and ...

In a remarkable United Nations address, the president lashed out at wind turbines, environmentalists and allies around the ...

Researchers have discovered that the electrical fields and activity that exist through a cell's membrane also exist within and around another type of cellular structure called biological condensates.

In his Chicago courtroom last week Circuit Judge Harry M. Fisher stared at a voltmeter which had been placed before him on the bench. The voltmeter was connected to a switch, and the switch was ...

President Donald Trump continued to cast doubts on climate change and global warming in UN speech, touting his push to expand fossil fuels.