This experiment demonstrates how static electricity can “remember” previous charges, revealing surprising properties of electrical interactions and material behavior.

Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known as “will-o’-the-wisp,” “jack-o’-lantern,” “corpse candle” and “ignis fatuus” (“foolish fire ...

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

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.

At Grand Rapids, Mich., the city pound manager put a cat into the asphyxial chamber with some dogs. The cat arched its back and spit for a fight. Its fur was bristling. .The manager slammed the ...

Ever since Darwin, biologists have been drawing trees to attempt to capture the complexity of evolution in various domains. These evolutionary trees are not only scientifically useful, but works of ...

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

Military whistleblowers testified before Congress about UFO encounters, describing incidents where objects allegedly deflected missiles and caused electronic interference.

Scientists solved the mystery of will-o'-the-wisps by discovering that methane bubbles in marshes create lightning sparks when they touch.