A bladeless turbine design converts the static electricity naturally generated by dust particles in compressed air into ...

A science demonstration by Mayur Vaishnav at Sandipani English School in Gujarat's Halvad town captured students' excitement and has since gone viral. A video of some students of a Gujarat school ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers found a way to harness the fundamental properties of triboelectrification, which most people think of it as static electricity, to ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Have you gotten shocked while touching a doorknob or a metal surface recently? First Alert Meteorologist Nate Morris explains what causes static electricity and why it’s more common ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Discovery Center Museum is offering an engaging experiment using styrofoam beads and a balloon, demonstrating how positive and negative charges interact.

Static electricity can remove up to three-quarters of frost from a surface, which could save vast amounts of energy and millions of tonnes of antifreeze currently used to defrost vehicles. In 2021, ...

Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your hair and watched it stick to the wall? That’s static electricity in action! Let’s see how you can make tiny pieces of tissue dance using just a balloon and some ...

This experiment demonstrates how static electricity can “remember” previous charges, revealing surprising properties of electrical interactions and material behavior. GOP backlash: Allies begin to ...

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Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...