Dusting all year round can seem like an endless task, because regardless of how frequently you tidy a room, that annoying grey film will reappear on your skirting boards within a couple of days.

This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

The original story “ Physicists solved a decades-old mystery about static electricity ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

If you’ve ever felt a shock after rubbing your hair with a balloon or shuffling across a carpet, you’ll know that static ...

But if these solid particles have the same composition, what factor causes the charge to flow in a given direction? In a new study published in Nature, physicists from the Institute of Science and ...

The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?

NORFOLK, Va. — If you've noticed more static shocks during the winter, you're not imagining it. Cold weather truly makes them much more common. That quick zap when you touch a doorknob or car door is ...

Discover Magazine: Daniel Lacks, the C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering, said static electricity remains surprisingly poorly understood at the microscopic level. He noted that even ...

Static electricity shocks are more common in the winter because of the season's dry air. Friction between materials, like socks on carpet, builds up a static charge in low humidity. Using a humidifier ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Residents across the Suncoast are experiencing an unusual phenomenon this week: frequent static electricity shocks when touching car doors, petting animals or grabbing shopping ...

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