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

Ticks can’t jump. But thanks to the forces of static electricity, sometimes, the arachnids can soar through the air, a new study says.

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

In high school physics classes, students are often taught that static electricity develops when electrons detach from the surface of one object and jump to another, causing a difference in charge.

New research shows that ticks can use static electricity to latch onto people or animals. The study in the journal Current Biology says the static charge given off by potential hosts can attract ticks ...

Static electricity is an imbalance in the amount of positive and negative charges found with in the surface of an object. The sudden flow of static electricity or Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can ...

I recently noticed the fine-print warning at the gas pump about the risk of fire from static electricity sparks. How serious is this? – Tatum in Campbell River, B.C. You're probably more likely to be ...

As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about gravity good enough to let us walk around, play baseball, and land spacecraft on ...

Tired of static cling? Discover my simple and effective ways for how to remove static from clothes using laundry hacks and ...

You can make clean power from falling snow. No sunlight needed. Scientists at UCLA have figured out how snow can generate ...

If frigid temps weren't cruel enough, winter also marks static electricity season in much of the United States as Americans pad about their homes in fear that anything — a door knob, a light switch, a ...