For the first time, scientists explain how rubbing a surface creates electrical current. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Researchers solve a 2,000-year-old mystery, revealing how friction between surfaces generates electric current through ...

The world city of Ephesus, home to the Temple of Artemis — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world — was located 50 miles north of Miletus. At precisely this moment, Heraclitus, the Ionian from ...

Anyone who has ever pet a cat or shuffled their feet across the carpet knows that rubbing objects together generates static ...

Study discovered that sliding creates different forces at the front and back of objects. This causes uneven charges and ...

We have known about the phenomenon of static electricity since at least the time of Aristotle. Aristotle credits fellow ...

The BBC's Wonders of Bulgaria explores Sozopol, a bustling port city where incredible relics from Antiquity are being ...

Who are the top ancient Greek philosophers, and what are their contributions to philosophy and modern life? Read on to ...

But life would be different for Aspasia. Born in Miletus, an Ionian Greek settlement on the coast of Western Turkey, she would not be bound by the same rules that restricted Athenian citizen women ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the phenomenon of static electricity generated by rubbing objects together. After more ...

In 451 Pericles introduced a new citizenship law which prevented the son of an Athenian father and a non-Athenian mother becoming a full citizen. The law's main effect was to curb the power of the ...

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