You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered why rubbing a balloon or a blanket—or even a winter hat—on your head makes your hair stand up? The effect is due to static electricity, but how is the ...

Static Electricity. 5/7/2021 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Staticized balloons and Van de Graff fun! 05/07/2021 ...

Here’s what you need: A balloon or comb; A sink with light running water; Instructions: Blow up the balloon and rub it against your hair. If you have a comb, rub or brush it against your hair.

A new study has found that the age-old understanding of this everyday phenomenon—one item becoming positively charged while the other becomes uniformly negative—is incorrect.

As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about gravity good enough to let us walk around, play baseball, and land spacecraft… ...

For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it's a staple of high school physics. Typically, it's explained as a product of electrons ...

By John Timmer, Ars Technica For many of us, static electricity is one of the earliest encounters we have with electromagnetism, and it’s a staple of high school physics. Typically, it’s ...