The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from ...

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Sheel and his team found that when the atmosphere of Mars is laden with dust, the atmosphere becomes less conductive, ...

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Jacksonville's Mayo Clinic will soon open a $320 million oncology center that, by 2028, will offer the Western Hemisphere's ...

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A neutral atom is an atom where the number of protons (positively charged particles) equals the number of electrons (negatively charged particles). This balance results in no overall electrical ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...

In terms of distribution, the study found that larger, positively-charged particles would settle at the bottom of the dust devil while lighter, negatively-charged ones would rise upward.

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...