The IEA forecasts that electricity consumption will grow at around 4% per year through to 2027, driven by industrial growth, data centre expansion, digitisation and decarbonisation. As a result, ...

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A growing body of research is shifting how scientists explain static electricity, pointing to surface contamination and ...

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A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

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There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

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Two microscopic grains collide and produce a tiny spark. This phenomenon may have provided the energy to kick off life on ...

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...