Early experimenters would charge the jar using electrostatic generators ... literally. Static electricity may be an everyday phenomenon, but the machines that harness its power are still ...

Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field. The ones in microphones are very small, but in the video after the break [Jay Bowles ...

Sometimes when you touch something metal, you can get a little electric shock, even if it’s not connected to a power source. And it’s all because of static ... Van de Graaff generator helps ...

What causes static electricity? And what actually happens when you get shocked? Visitors of the Electricity Party exhibit at the Bakken Museum in south Minneapolis are making the best of the ...

This leaves us wondering: does the smoothed bazin experience more or less static cling than other fabrics do?

Zaps of static ... power in a shorter amount of time than before. Researchers accomplished this by placing the TENG atop a vibrational plate that bounced the tape layers apart, generating ...

amid slumping sales during the coronavirus pandemic, so it's looking to harness a new power source to jump-start sales: static electricity. The company's next-generation Accutron Spaceview 2020 ...

Scientists have finally figured out the core mechanism behind static electricity. First discovered in 600 B.C., the ...