In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests ...

For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in the Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the ambipolar electric field, was predicted to exist decades ago but ...

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New ...

A new study has found for the first time that magnetoelectric nanoparticles—tiny, wirelessly controlled particles activated ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

Honeybees have a very good sense of smell. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 While Ellard Hunting and fellow researchers were out studying the weather at a field station in ...