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 ...

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Getting inside a sturdy structure or at least an automobile is the best move when thunder roars, but just not being in water or being the tallest object around is a good start.

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

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

If I bring a positively charged object, the opposite thing will happen, right? Electrons will be pulled out of the wire and into the pencil.

Physicists say the pan has been charged by induction. You can carry the positively charged pan around by its handle and carry the positive charge to other objects. For example, if you bring the ...

What causes lightning? Lightning is formed when negative charged ions collect in a cloud. At the same time, positive charged ions are forming on the ground under the cloud and following it.

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.

According to Shinbrot, the culprit is an excess of either positive or negative electrical charge. All atoms contain both positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons.

Static electricity also causes static cling – cat fur builds up an electrostatic charge, and light, positively charged objects like foam peanuts can easily stick to it.