Marks notes that while most people associate static electricity with demonstrations such as hair-raising elementary science experiments or touching a doorknob after rubbing your pet’s fur ...

This seemingly trivial observation was the first documentation of static electricity ... we finally have an answer to one of science’s oldest mysteries. The findings were reported in the ...

And while cats are not the main culprits of creating this static electricity ... professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern. “People have tried, but they could not explain ...

In this article, we’ll dive into some of the most iconic machines that generate static electricity and explore how they work. Before we look at the fancy science gear, we should actually define ...

The blood-sucking parasites may be able to catapult themselves from vegetation to their hosts thanks to static electricity ... An electrically charged nylon ball attracts a nearby tick (Ixodes ...

While in flight, they collect so much static electricity that pollen grains ... Laura is Popular Science’s news editor, overseeing coverage of a wide variety of subjects. Laura is particularly ...

Static electricity was first observed in 600 B.C ... An expert in surface structures, Marks is a professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School ...

Motions like petting generate static electricity. For the first time, researchers at Northwestern University say they understand how the phenomenon occurrs. “If you put your hand on a cat ...

Static electricity—specifically the triboelectric ... Now scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have identified a critical factor explaining that inherent ...