Rub a balloon on your hair and the balloon typically picks up a negative electric charge, while your hair goes positive. But a new study shows that the charge an object picks up can depend on its ...

Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much more ...

Researchers create the first ever visualization of photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two semiconductor materials UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever “movie” ...