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

Another day, another zap. Understanding the physics of static electricity can help you not get static shocks quite so often.

They modeled static electricity at the nanometric level, highlighting the importance of friction. Researchers discovered that when an object is rubbed, deformations occur at the front and back of it.