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 ...

One of the first science concepts that most people get exposed to as kids is static electricity ... Ouch. You can explain the ...

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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This seemingly trivial observation was the first documentation of static electricity ... “For the first time, we are able to explain a mystery that nobody could before: why rubbing matters ...

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

In its simplest form, a static eliminator or static ionizer is a static reduction device that produces positive and negative ions which are attracted to an unbalanced surface or material. As long as ...

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 ...

Board games for kids don’t have to be boring ... and silly version of Jenga. The static cling of the little pieces makes placing them way more interesting than it is in Jenga, and it allows ...

Janee Hamilton and Helen Lassiter are the two teachers who serve as facilitators for the Paxton/Patterson labs. They keep a ...