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Have you ever stepped out of your car and gone to close the door, only to have a sharp and painful zap of static electricity shoot through your fingers? We have. It seems to happen all the time.

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 ...

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

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Door handles, taps, playground slides, furry pets… Getting zapped by static electricity is a common experience. But the physics that causes the spark is surprisingly intricate. If you're getting ...

Now, scientists have developed an ingenious way to recycle polystyrene – by converting its static electricity into usable power. The invention comes from researchers at Australia's RMIT ...

If you've ever had a packing peanut stick to your clothes as you unbox your Amazon delivery, then you know that Styrofoam is pretty good at generating static electricity. A new invention turns ...

Scientists at Northwestern University may have figured out why walking on carpet in your socks, petting your furry friend, or rubbing a balloon on your hair creates static electricity. In a new ...

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 ...

Static electricity was first observed in 600 BCE. Yet for many years modern researchers have struggled to explain how rubbing causes it. For thousands of years humans have understood that rubbing ...