School closures due to the coronavirus outbreak mean borderland children are about to spend a lot more time at home. That’s challenging on any number of levels, with many of us wondering what can you ...

Stewart C. Meyer Harker Heights Public Library clerk Heather Heilman leads the virtual Science Time program on Wednesday afternoons, and she always has something new and fun to bring to viewers. This ...

MILWAUKEE -- Do you feel like you're a human stun-gun lately? It's all that static electricity! Professor Maria and Dr. Molly Cule with Mad Science join Real Milwaukee to teach us all about it. About ...

In nature we can see some incredible things, including watching lightning strike across the sky! Lightning starts in clouds. Within these clouds there are positive and negative charges that usually ...

You lit the light bulb in a manner similar to how clouds create lightning! Nature likes for conditions to be balanced; it likes positive (protons) and negative (electrons) charges to be able to mix ...

The imbalance of charges that takes place with this fun phenomenon typically happens when two different materials come into contact and then are separated. In the experience, one of the materials may ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Ticks are annoying. They can latch onto a host, suck up blood and leave Lyme disease behind... but how do they get on their host in the first place? Researchers at the University ...

Static electricity can be a nuisance or even a danger. The energy that makes your hair to stand on end can also damage electronics and cause explosions. However, properly controlled and manipulated, ...

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