Nothing is more emblematic of an electron than its negative charge. It’s the trait that determines how the particle behaves in electromagnetic environments, such as a wire’s electric field and Earth’s ...

Innovative nanoelectronic devices such as ferroelectric tunnel junctions 1,2 in the field of nonvolatile memory technology, or gallium nitride (GaN)-based 3,4,5 laser diodes in optoelectronic ...

Atoms are composed of three particles with an electric charge: electrons, protons and uncharged neutrons. Electrons have a negative charge, and protons have a positive charge. The negative charge of ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new scanning transmission electron microscopy method that enables visualization of the electric charge density of ...

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Professor Dong-Myeong Shin and his team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering at the ...

Fukuoka, Japan—If you often find yourself off by one when counting your socks after doing the laundry, you might want to sit down for this. Scientists in Japan have now counted the number of extra—or ...

Santa Barbara, Calif. -- Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and at the University of Pittsburgh have provided "proof of concept that quantum spin information can be ...

A new study measured the correlation between the number of electrons in space and the sudden release of electrical charges from satellites. reading time 2 minutes In 1994, two Canadian TV satellites ...

Astronomers have proposed a new model for the invisible material that makes up most of the matter in the Universe. They have studied whether a fraction of dark matter particles may have a tiny ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Does dark matter have an electric charge? No one's really wondered before, but researchers are ...