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

It may look funny, but when your hair stands up during a thunderstorm, you're in danger. A newly surfaced viral video shows a girl and her friends in a parking lot on June 21, 2021. The eerie effect ...

Butterflies and moths build up static electricity as they fly, and these charges could allow the insects to collect pollen without touching flowers, according to a new study in the Journal of the ...

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.

Although static electricity is a daily phenomenon, scientists still don’t understand how the charge transfer works. ... That has made it difficult to draw clear conclusions.

Some moths and butterflies, including the European peacock butterfly pictured here, can accumulate static electricity, new research shows. The charges may be strong enough to draw pollen from flowers.

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.

Static electricity attracts ticks to hosts Date: June 30, 2023 Source: University of Bristol Summary: Ticks can be attracted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static ...

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 ...

Scientists have finally explained how rubbing a surface creates electrical current, drawing a parallel with stroking a cat although the findings have far wider ramifications. Static electricity ...

Static Electricity May Help Butterflies and Moths Pick Up Pollen ... The 11 species studied in the paper are too few to draw conclusions about ecological differences, ...

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 ...