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

Researchers have developed a way to produce static electricity from motion and wind. The invention made from waste polystyrene by RMIT University in collaboration with Riga Technical University in ...

Posted in Art, hardware, High Voltage Tagged electrostatic, Future Interfaces Group, mylar, static electricity Supersized Van De Graaff Generator Packs A Punch April 27, 2021 by Tom Nardi 19 Comments ...

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 ...

Static electricity is harmless most of the time, but if you are electrically charged and touch something conductive, you pass that charge on. If you touch metal, you pass the electricity to the metal.

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 ...

Static electricity was first observed in 600 B.C., but researchers have struggled to explain how rubbing causes it. In 2019, researchers discovered nanosized surface deformations at play. The same ...

Generating electricity from tacky tape Date: January 30, 2025 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they ...

“The static energy from a [combine] discharge ranges from about 10 millijoules (mJ) to 150 mJ in a single-discharge spark,” said Ben White, a research engineer for the Kondinin Group, an ...

As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about gravity good enough to let us walk around, play baseball, and land spacecraft… ...