For decades, scientists treated Martian dust storms as mostly mechanical events, driven by wind and sunlight rather than crackling electricity. The first confirmed detection of tiny lightning-like ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected electrical sparks within dust devils on Mars for the first time. The rover's SuperCam instrument recorded dozens of audio clips of the discharges and their ...

As officials search for the origin of various fires that have devastated wide swaths of Southern California, a new lawsuit alleges that the Eaton Fire began from an electrical spark at a utility ...

Electric sparks are used for welding, powering electronics, killing germs or for igniting the fuel in some car engines. Despite their usefulness, they are hard to control in open space—they split into ...

Electricity is chaotic, and we normally need to constrain it to wires and circuits to make use of it. Scientists in Europe and Canada have now managed to guide sparks through thin air and even around ...