Could detecting static electricity be a factor in explaining why treehopper insects have evolved such bizarre body shapes? Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. That is the ...

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 study, ...

There's a reason you may notice it more in the winter. Excess static electricity is always a shock to the system—literally—but if you're experiencing shocks more so than not, annoying is an ...

But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

Could detecting static electricity be a factor in explaining why treehopper insects have evolved such bizarre body shapes? That is the hypothesis put forward in a new research paper published in PNAS ...