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

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 ...

Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater ... there’s an excellent chance they’ll be familiar with the “metal ball that makes your hair stand up ...

An electrically charged nylon ball attracts a nearby tick (Ixodes ricinus), lifting it to the object’s surface by electrostatic forces.Since static charges are common on vertebrates, ticks might ...

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 ...

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 ...