Imagine a world without the glow of your screen, the hum of your fridge, or the instant communication across continents.

Mysterious flashes of light seen in swamps and bogs could be caused by burning methane or other gases, ignited by sparks that ...

Flashes of microlightning between microscopic bubbles of methane in water may ignite the eerie blue flames of will-o’-the ...

Most people probably have an intuition that lightning is big, but few people grasp the true potential scope that a single ...

Chemists have discovered tiny zaps of electricity moving between “swamp-gas” bubbles. Could they ignite methane gas to glow as dancing blue flames?

Thunder Basin High School hasn't even welcomed back a class for its 10-year reunion yet. But one of the state's newest high ...

In doing so, moreover, he may also have stumbled across part of the answer to a far bigger mystery: the origin of life on Earth. Water, en masse, has no electric charge. But droplets of it do.

Learn more about the Will-o’-the-Wisp and how this mysterious phenomenon, which has inspired faerie folklore, may actually be ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

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