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 more ...

Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your hair and watched it stick to the wall? That’s static electricity in action!

In nature we can see some incredible things, including watching lightning strike across the sky! Lightning starts in clouds. Within these clouds there are positive and negative charges that usually ...

There's been a lot of talk of capturing the energy we create while doing every tasks (such as typing on your cell phone or rolling your suitcase) to power things. While it seems like these actions ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found. An international ...

You may consider fall to be the best time of year in Phoenix, thanks to the mild weather. Yet the conditions that produce this lovely seasonal interlude are responsible for one of life's little ...

A cleaning expert has shared a 'weird' hack to stop dust from building up in your home, and it's all to do with the heating ...

Bob Renkes of Petroleum Equipment Institute is working on a campaign to try and make people aware of fires as a result of "static" at gas pumps. His company has researched 150 cases of these fires.