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More recently, researchers have found them in materials that also support more complicated forms of collective electron behavior, including magnetism and superconductivity, in which electrons pair together and move through a material without friction.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

For decades, however, chemists have faced a basic limitation in how electron transfer works.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

The findings show that the crucial selection does not necessarily happen when the electron first moves.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Cosmic ray energies are measured in electron volts, a unit describing the energy an electron gains when its electrical potential increases by one volt.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026

For example, if the electric charge of the electron had been only slightly different, stars either would have been unable to burn hydrogen and helium, or else they would not have exploded.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

More recently, researchers have found them in materials that also support more complicated forms of collective electron behavior, including magnetism and superconductivity, in which electrons pair together and move through a material without friction.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

A charge density wave develops when electric charges such as electrons spontaneously organize into a repeating wave pattern.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Scientists have struggled to directly investigate how their electrons move collectively, interact with one another, and react to outside disturbances.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Those measurements revealed previously unseen optical features that contain information about the collective behavior of electrons inside the Wigner crystal.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

The atom—the fundamental unit of matter—was actually made of even more fundamental units of matter: electrons, protons, and neutrons.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee