Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

When microscopic particles of sand, ash, or dust collide in the air, they often exchange a tiny electrical charge. This tiny ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

A team of physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria has now identified what breaks that symmetry: a thin, ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the case.

A growing body of research is shifting how scientists explain static electricity, pointing to surface contamination and contact history rather than the inherent properties of materials as the primary ...

When high-voltage electricity breaks out in open air, it rips through the atmosphere, forming chaotic, branching fingers of electric plasma. These electrical arcs are difficult to control. They branch ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Ticks are annoying. They can latch onto a host, suck up blood and leave Lyme disease behind... but how do they get on their host in the first place? Researchers at the University ...

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Over the millennia, the phenomenon known as electricity has meant different things to different people. In ancient societies, electricity—or more specifically lightning—was inspiration for some of the ...