The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

Static electricity—specifically the triboelectric effect, aka contact electrification—is ubiquitous in our daily lives, found in such things as a balloon rubbed against one's hair or styrofoam ...

Static electricity is a build up of electric charge on an object, and it can have some pretty strange effects. See, everything around us is made up of atoms which have a positively charged nucleus ...

No difference (p = 0.89) in CE between stretching and control was observed (0.12; 95% confidence interval −1.52 to 1.76). Conclusion: A static stretch regimen had no effect on JPS in healthy ...