The coroner concluded Faherty's death was a case of spontaneous human combustion — a human being catching fire with no apparent cause. Can human ... perhaps due to static electricity — could ...

Zaps of static electricity are commonplace in everyday life. But can static electricity give enough of a jolt to start a fire? Static electricity is the result of an imbalance between negative and ...

Ticks, the pesky insects that can infect humans and animals with a variety of ailments including Lyme disease, are the first known creatures to show a link between static electricity and ...

Lead author Dr Sam England explained: "We knew that many animals naturally accumulate static electricity on their bodies as they move around their environment, and that static electricity can push ...

New research shows that ticks can use static electricity to latch onto people or animals. The study in the journal Current Biology says the static charge given off by potential hosts can attract ...

“There is no doubt that static electricity builds up on parts of combines ... accumulations of dust near exhaust components can grow large enough to ignite without an actual static electric ...

Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows. Humans and animals naturally pick up ...

“We now can… Just having different deformations — and therefore different charges — at the front and back of something sliding leads to current.” Static electricity occurs when two ...

Previous research has demonstrated how parasitic nematodes can use static electricity to catapult themselves on to fruit flies (SN: 3/16/23). The findings suggest new anti-tick measures for people ...

Ticks can be attracted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that their hosts naturally accumulate, researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered.

NEW YORK (AP) — Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows. Humans and animals ...