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For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...

In storm clouds, ice does more than just float or fall—it might actually help generate electricity. A new study in Nature Physicsfinds that when ordinary ice is bent, it can produce an electric charge ...