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 can be created by rubbing one object against another object. This is because the rubbing releases negative charges, ... Use it to make a ball around the knots in the thread.

The marvel of static electricity once seemed a promising way forward in the great electrification of the world. In 1663, Prussian scientist Otto von Guericke, who was also the mayor of Magdeburg, ...