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 ...

The Bakken Museum in South Minneapolis allows people to learn about the awkward and sometimes painful feeling.

Static shock is very common in cold weather. Frizzy hair on end or zaps to the hands seem to happen more often in winter.

Sometimes when you touch something metal, you can get a little electric shock, even if it’s not connected to a power source. And it’s all because of static electricity. Static electricity is a ...

Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field. The ones in microphones are very small, but in the video after the break [Jay Bowles ...

What causes static electricity? And what actually happens when you get shocked? Visitors of the Electricity Party exhibit at the Bakken Museum in south Minneapolis are making the best of the ...

Hummingbird flower mites use static electricity to hop between flowers. Researchers initially thought scent guided them.

Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they represent an untapped source of energy. Using a device called a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), ...

The evolution of static electricity by evaporation was illustrated by pouring water into a small heated vessel placed on the electrometer. This mode ot excitiag electricity possesses peculiar ...

Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they represent an untapped source of ...