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 ...

Dust is always floating around in the air, but when it settles, static electricity can draw it to wooden surfaces, leading to a rapid build-up of dirt, hair, and other particles.

The film explains the fundamentals of electricity, including static and current electricity, the behavior of electrons, and the concept of electrical circuits. It demonstrates how static ...

Although static electricity is a daily phenomenon, scientists still don’t understand how the charge transfer works. The phenomenon is important for everything from lightning storms to pollination.

"Static electricity is what happens in the world, in the natural world, when two different types of materials run together and they build up a lot of extra negative charges," said Anika Taylor ...

Door handles, taps, playground slides, furry pets… Getting zapped by static electricity is a common experience. But the physics that causes the spark is surprisingly intricate.

Electrical charge that simply dwells on an object is referred to as static electricity. How Electricity Works We will explain electricity by drawing an analogy to water in a pipe.

The researchers also decoded what causes the static electricity effect at the nanoscale for what they believe is the first time, and came up with a way to harness the somewhat chaotic process to ...