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For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

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Static zaps when you climb out of a car are more than a minor annoyance; they are a tiny physics lesson delivered straight to ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the ...

Dust on Mars has a new voice. What once looked like silent red storms now crackles with tiny sparks, as if the planet were ...

Dust devils on Mars generate tiny electrical sparks. This could help explain how the Red Planet’s atmosphere and surface are ...

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Physicists have finally secured direct evidence that quantum spin ice, a long-hypothesized and highly unusual state of matter ...