A strictly esque large metal ball with a handle that you turn to generate static electricity. Pop your hands on the ball, and ...

A research team has discovered a new way to control tiny magnetic properties inside materials using electric current, which ...

A decades-old superconducting mystery just took a surprising turn. Strontium ruthenate, a material that conducts electricity with zero resistance at low temperatures, has long puzzled scientists with ...

The great Walt Whitman is often attributed with the saying, “Be curious, not judgmental.” Whether or not he really uttered ...

The original story “ Physicists solved a decades-old mystery about static electricity ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with ...

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

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AI needs staggering amounts of compute, power, land, and water. We already feel those limits on Earth. That is why Elon ...

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

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IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the leading quantum company, today announced a landmark agreement with the University of Cambridge to establish the IonQ Quantum Innovation Centre. The collaboration is designed to ...