Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in ...

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

A team of international researchers have developed a breakthrough way to observe what is happening inside electronic chips while they are operating—without touching them, taking them apart, or ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor, his calamitous management of Shockley Semiconductor which led to a mass ...

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

If you’ve ever felt a shock after rubbing your hair with a balloon or shuffling across a carpet, you’ll know that static electricity can be a real pain. But for the scientists who study it, the pain ...