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Honeybees have a very good sense of smell. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 While Ellard Hunting and fellow researchers were out studying the weather at a field station in ...

Shayla Love: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Shayla Love. When you hear a bee buzzing along, visiting a flower, you’re hearing the movement of air made by the fluttering of its ...

For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in the Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the ambipolar electric field, was predicted to exist decades ago but ...

Electric fields arise spontaneously at the surface of solid catalysts immersed in liquids, and this common yet largely overlooked phenomenon directly affects the rates of a large class of reactions.

Rare earth elements used in smartphones and electric vehicles could be extracted from the ground more sustainably using electric fields. Today, most rare earth metals used in electronics are mined by ...