You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an acrylic ...

Stars Reach has a big new update, Hidden Fog, that not only adds (optional) fog, it adds lots of visual and lighting upgrades, an overhauled new user experience,, and a series of additional ...

The life story of Milwaukee's popular '90s cover band "Lightning & Thunder" is now a movie, capturing their journey from local stages to performing with Eddie Vedder at Summerfest. The life story of ...

A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping you see lightning in a new way. Scientists have found a way to watch an object build electric charge in ...

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it charges up. The particle’s glow signals each step in its changing ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

A green spectacle. With protective eyewear, ISTA PHD student Andrea Stöllner takes a glimpse into the experimental chamber (in the foreground) where two laser beams trap a single particle. One ...

A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the first time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

There's something invisible that can put us in an early grave. And I’m not talking about sentient AI, but something much more ubiquitous and real. While AI doomers predict the existential risk that ...

Ford Motor executives are said to be in talks over the fate of the all-electric pickup. No decisions have been made yet. Industry experts expect many automakers to end production of various EVs now ...