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

Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much mor… ...

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 ...

We have known about the phenomenon of static electricity since at least the time of Aristotle. Aristotle credits fellow philosopher Thales of Miletus, who lived between 640 and 546 BCE, with the ...

The electricity travels through the static wicks, across the isolated grounding system, and back out the other end into the air, where it can safely dissipate away from the plane.

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 ...

"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, ...

Can Static Electricity Spark A Combine Fire? There’s no doubt static electricity can build up on combines. Here’s what research says about its ability to actually ignite a blaze.

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 ...