Credit: public domain Though not exactly a machine for generating static electricity, the Leyden jar is a critical part of early electrostatic experiments. Effectively a static electricity storage ...

Researchers in Purdue’s College of Engineering have developed an apparatus to generate and measure gas breakdown during contact electrification — the process responsible for static electricity ... to ...

Marks notes that while most people associate static electricity with demonstrations such as hair-raising elementary science experiments or touching a doorknob after rubbing your pet’s fur ...

This seemingly trivial observation was the first documentation of static electricity ... electric shocks can have big ...

Static electricity—specifically the triboelectric ... scientists don't get the same ordering results twice when repeating experiments—largely because there are so many confounding factors ...

Discover the fascinating world of static electricity through simple balloon experiments. You'll learn how static charges build up through friction, how they attract or repel objects, and see everyday ...

For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the Waitukaitis group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ...

Static electricity builds up on the grounds ... seemingly incongruous disciplines to conduct dozens of drinkable experiments and probe the fundamental science behind a cup of joe.

And while cats are not the main culprits of creating this static electricity, their fur is an ideal conductor. Northwestern University researchers have been working on the elusive mystery of how ...

Researchers from Singapore have developed a clever way to turn raindrops into electricity – enough ... Although the droplet speeds used in the experiment were slower than natural rainfall ...