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

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

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

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

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

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