Protons have a positive charge. Two protons repel each other. Electrons have a negative charge. Two electrons repel each other. A proton and an electron have opposite charges and attract each other.

Discovery of protons Throughout most of the 19th century, it was thought that atoms were the smallest and most basic building block of all matter, but as that century neared its end, the evidence ...

An artistic representation of the first 3D metal-organic framework to simultaneously transport both electrons and protons, in which the tetrathiafulvalene rings and hydrogen bonds between ...

It was already known that this molecule transfers both protons and electrons to corresponding acceptor molecules, but the exact course of these processes -- the mechanism -- was unknown.

When protons and electrons stream out from the solar surface, they then slam into Earth’s magnetic field, which shields Earth’s surface from most of the energy and particles that come from the ...

A few years ago, a novel measurement technique showed that protons are probably smaller than had been assumed since the 1990s. The discrepancy surprised the scientific community; some researchers ...

The team showcased that by injecting electrons with a specific spin – a quantum property that makes them behave like tiny magnets – they could influence how easily protons moved through the ...

By contrast, other atoms can attract an electron and become negatively charged (more electrons than protons). This imbalance is what we know as static electricity.

Particles of antimatter, like anti-electrons and anti-protons, possess the same mass but opposite electric charge as the usual electrons and protons.

They go beyond typical simulations that treat the electrically charged particles of protons and electrons in the plasma surrounding the black hole like a single fluid.