Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much ...

And it’s all because of static electricity. Static electricity is a build up of electric charge on an object, and it can have some pretty strange effects. See, everything around us is made up of ...

Because the static electricity in synthetic clothing can create ... The Italians were the first Europeans to develop fireworks into an art form. During the Renaissance, when fireworks as we ...

Scientists have finally figured out the core mechanism behind static electricity. First discovered in 600 B.C., the ...