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Lightning is the simple process of balancing negatively and positively charged electrons in the atmosphere. We can do this on a small scale with electric shock on your finger when you and another ...

On January 17, 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to ...

Researchers from Singapore have developed a clever way to turn raindrops into electricity – enough to power 12 LEDs for 20 seconds using nothing more than a small vertical tube and some carefully ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science ...