Electricity

energy · science · power

Tiny charges. Electricity comes from electric charges in matter. When these charges move, they create the energy that lights your home and charges your devices.

Lightning is electricity. A lightning bolt is a huge electric discharge zapping through the sky, nature's most dramatic display of electricity!

Best friends with magnets. Electricity and magnetism are two parts of the same thing, called electromagnetism. They're so connected that one can create the other.

Static shocks. That little zap when you touch a doorknob is static electricity, charges jumping from you to the metal.

Heat and light. Electricity can make heaters warm, bulbs glow, and so much more by flowing through wires.