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 ...

Carbon forms the graphite in pencils, the diamonds in jewelry and the molecules that make up every living thing. But under ...

Two microscopic grains collide and produce a tiny spark. This phenomenon may have provided the energy to kick off life on Earth. But if these solid particles have the same composition, what factor ...

A team of researchers co-led by the University of California San Diego, University of Michigan, and the French National ...

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this normally unwieldy light into a tiny region, ...

In a small classroom in Aligarh, waste materials are turning into machines. A government school teacher is guiding students ...

Five-year-olds are creating pornographic content on TikTok to raise money for video games such as Roblox and Fortnite, police have warned. A document prepared by the UK Online CSEA Covert Intelligence ...