One of the many announcements at the 2020 DC FanDome (remember those?) was news of a Static Shock movie coming from producer ...

Researchers have used the jellyfish search algorithm to optimize solar PV distributed generation placement and sizing. They have tested the algorithm on an IEEE 33-bus system, with one, two, or three ...

Central to the operational efficiency of HEVs is the Energy Management Strategy (EMS), which determines how power is distributed between the internal combustion engine and the electric motor.

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

As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about ...

Opinion Static electricity fried my PC when I opened it. Here’s what I did wrong Why you need to take precautions! By Dominic Bayley Australian Editor, PCWorld Jun 13, 2025 3:30 am PDT ...

Static electricity—specifically the triboelectric effect, aka contact electrification—is ubiquitous in our daily lives, found in such things as a balloon rubbed against one's hair or styrofoam ...

Static electricity depends on materials' contact history, physicists show For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the ...

The mechanism that causes static electricity to build up is a mystery. Experiments now reveal that materials ‘remember’ past contacts with each other — and this determines how electric ...