All subatomic particles have intrinsic physical properties, such as mass, spin and charge. Charge is what comes into play when we talk about static shocks. It is either positive or negative. Each ...

The number of times an object had previously touched another determined whether the object became negatively or positively charged when touched again, researchers report in the Feb. 20 Nature.

"Because like-charged objects in a vacuum are expected to repel regardless of whether the sign of the charge they carry is positive or negative, the expectation is that like-charged particles in ...

Protons have a positive charge. Electrons have a negative charge. The charge on the proton and electron are exactly the same size but opposite. Neutrons have no charge. Since opposite charges attract, ...

We have discovered legions of strange particles that seem to only have a ghostly existence inside materials. Even so, they ...

If I bring, let's say, a negatively charged object close to this pencil, ... Most of them charged positively, including sodium chloride. Though I have to say this was not just table salt.

With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: as a thunderstorm moves through an ...

According to NOAA, lightning looks for an easy path to release its charge – usually between or inside clouds, but sometimes the ground or a positively-charged tall object, like a tree or ...

Spectacular footage of ground-to-cloud lighting has been captured on film in Burleigh Heads, Australia. The jaw-dropping video captures the exact moment huge lightning bolts illumi ...

All subatomic particles have intrinsic physical properties, such as mass, spin and charge. Charge is what comes into play when we talk about static shocks. It is either positive or negative.