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Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head, and the transfer of charges will make your hair stand on end. Shuffle your feet on a carpet, ...

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Rub two identical pieces of glass together and something strange happens. One picks up a positive charge. The other goes negative. This much has been known for centuries. What nobody could explain was ...

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DENVER — Static electricity is a touchy subject. Touch or rub two materials together, and they can exchange electric charge. But the details behind the phenomenon of static electricity are poorly ...

Levitating matter with sound. Experimental setup with an acoustically levitated particle of silica used by scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) to explain static ...

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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 ...