The film explains the fundamentals of electricity, including static and current electricity, the behavior of electrons, and the concept of electrical circuits. It demonstrates how static ...

For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the Waitukaitis group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ...

Try getting rid of static on laundry with a simple clothes hanger trick. Running a wire hanger across staticky clothes transfers the static to the metal of the hanger. It's a better idea than calling ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Have you noticed that during the winter, every time you touch your light switch or anything metal, you get a nasty shock? Why is this? It has to do with charges. You get… ...

"Static electricity is what happens in the world, in the natural world, when two different types of materials run together and they build up a lot of extra negative charges," said Anika Taylor ...

Door handles, taps, playground slides, furry pets… Getting zapped by static electricity is a common experience. But the physics that causes the spark is surprisingly intricate.

The researchers also decoded what causes the static electricity effect at the nanoscale for what they believe is the first time, and came up with a way to harness the somewhat chaotic process to ...

For years, biologists have wondered whether bees have another grand sense that we lack. The static electricity they accumulate by flying—similar to the charge generated when you shuffle across ...

Significant advances were made in the 18th century with Benjamin Franklin. He introduced the notions of positive and negative charges, but his theories on electrical fluids turned out to be imperfect.

Other researchers will have to verify the results, and while this hypothesis may help explain many kinds of static electricity, including the kind produced by same-material rubbing, it wouldn’t ...