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When microscopic particles of sand, ash, or dust collide in the air, they often exchange a tiny electrical charge. This tiny ...

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

When high-voltage electricity breaks out in open air, it rips through the atmosphere, forming chaotic, branching fingers of electric plasma. These electrical arcs are difficult to control. They branch ...

A recently published article in the journal Weed Science shows electric control technologies can eradicate weeds just as effectively as herbicides or mechanical methods, with minimal risks to the crop ...

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Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...