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

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 mor… ...

Frying a computer component with static is one of those things that very rarely ever happens. Yet it can happen, as I found out recently through personal experience — when building a new PC, I made a ...

Anyone who has ever pet a cat or shuffled their feet across the carpet knows that rubbing objects together generates static ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

Can Static Electricity Spark A Combine Fire? There’s no doubt static electricity can build up on combines. Here’s what research says about its ability to actually ignite a blaze.

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 ...

But, while static electricity may be cute to think about when petting a cat, sparks can result in industrial fires and explosions. It can also hinder consistent dosing for powdered pharmaceuticals.