In a small lab at Penn State University, lightning may be happening on a scale smaller than a deck of cards. Victor Pasko, a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical ...

Mars may look like a quiet, dusty world, but it’s actually buzzing with hidden electrical activity. Powerful dust storms and ...

Underwater electrical discharges provide a compelling method for generating intense shock waves and complex fluid dynamics in aquatic environments. These processes occur when high-voltage electrical ...

For decades, researchers have suspected that lightning lights up the sky on Mars. Now, they may have captured at least the audio evidence to prove it. NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded dozens of ...

A team from Penn State has documented in the wild the elusive electrical coronas that for nearly a century had only been hypothesized. For almost a century, scientists suspected that thunderstorms ...

For the first time, researchers have observed and measured weak electrical discharges, known as coronae, on trees during thunderstorms. A new study describes the near-invisible sparkles appearing ...

One of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars has for the first time ever detected electrical sparks igniting within small dusty tornadoes whirling on the planet's surface. While scientists have long theorized ...

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover. A team of researchers has made significant strides in ...

The leaves on trees can respond to thunderstorms overhead with tiny electrical discharges of their own, according to scientists at Penn State. The weak discharges, called corona, collectively generate ...

The study of electrical discharges in low-pressure environments is critical for understanding insulation breakdown mechanisms and ensuring the reliability of high-voltage systems in aerospace, ...

Many technologies rely on electric discharge phenomena, including consumer electronics, medical devices, and high-voltage power systems. During product development, it is highly beneficial to simulate ...