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 ... electric shocks can have big consequences. Further experiments will help refine the details.

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 ...

Several experiments ... electricity was collected by an insulated metal plate, it served, after a few repetitions, to charge a small Leyden jar, by which gunpowder wus fired. The evolution of ...

Before we look at the fancy science gear ... Leyden jar is a critical part of early electrostatic experiments. Effectively a static electricity storage device, it was independently discovered ...

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 ...

Scientists at Northwestern University may have figured out why walking on carpet in your socks, petting your furry friend, or rubbing a balloon on your hair creates static electricity. In a new ...

“We can produce this static electricity just from air blowing on the surface of our clever patches, then harvest that energy,” said Sherrell from the School of Science. “There's potential ...

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 ...

Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field. The ones in microphones are very small, but in the video after the break [Jay Bowles ...