You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about ...

People have known about the existence of static electricity for millennia, with the first recorded observation of it thought to have been made by Greek philosopher Thales of Mileus in 600 B.C ...

The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE. Even after 2,600 years’ worth of tiny shocks, however, researchers couldn’t fully explain how rubbing two objects together ...

Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled how static electricity works, something first recorded in 600 BCE but not fully understood until now. While cats are not the only culprits ...

Static electricity was first observed in 600 B.C., but researchers have struggled to explain how rubbing causes it. In 2019, researchers discovered nanosized surface deformations at play.

Static electricity depends on materials' contact history, physicists show. For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation.

Static damage isn’t always obvious. Even after feeling the shock, I didn’t realize my soundcard was as dead as a doornail. That realization came a bit later when I couldn’t get the part to work.

While bees get most of the pollination hype, butterflies and moths are some of our planet’s power pollinators.While in flight, they collect so much static electricity that pollen grains from ...

Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.