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 ...

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 ...

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When he rubbed fur on amber, the amber attracted dust. This seemingly trivial observation was the first documentation of static electricity. For over 2,600 years, scientists have grappled with ...

One of the first science concepts that most people get exposed to as kids is static electricity. Take a balloon, rub it on ...

An invention made from waste polystyrene that generates static electricity from motion and wind could lower power usage by ...

Wrong, say experts. It’s just an urban legend, circulated via e-mail as early as the late 1990s, claiming that the microwaves emitted from mobile phones could generate a spark that could ignite ...

What if we could use Styrofoam to create electricity? Scientists at RMIT University have figured out how to do just that.

The innovative thin patch, made from multiple layers of polystyrene each around one-tenth the thickness of a human hair, ...

The invention comes from researchers at Australia's RMIT University and was developed in collaboration with Latvia's Riga ...

Researchers have found an inventive way to power air conditioners using static electricity—by transforming waste polystyrene ...

An invention made from waste polystyrene that generates static electricity from motion and wind could lower power usage by recycling waste energy in air conditioners and other applications.