Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your hair and watched it stick to the wall? That’s static electricity in action!
On November 1, 2025, in Anhui, China, a young girl experienced a funny moment when her hair stood on end from static ...
"I just came to pump gas. And did anybody know this about pumping?" she asks, before showing a warning label on the pump ...
Ticks can’t jump. But thanks to the forces of static electricity, sometimes, the arachnids can soar through the air, a new study says.
Abstract: In this paper we present the design and implementation of a new flexible testbed for testing electricity meters with conducted EMI in the frequency range up to 150 kHz. This testbed is based ...
German scientists create electricity from water and pressure using silicon nanostructures, a breakthrough in triboelectric ...
But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...
A European research team involving Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY has ...
A European research team involving Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY has developed a novel way for converting mechanical energy into electricity – by ...
Researchers found that cycling water in nanopores of water-repellent silicon can convert mechanical energy into measurable electricity. (Nanowerk News) A European research team involving scientists ...
Researchers wanted to quantify how much charge a jumping parasitic roundworm needed to latch on to its fruit fly host.Credit...By Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez Supported by By Alexa Robles-Gil For small ...