The Discovery Center Museum is offering an engaging experiment using styrofoam beads and a balloon, demonstrating how ...

TATP is one of the world’s most unstable explosives. It is highly sensitive to heat, friction, impact and even static electricity, making it dangerous to manufacture or transport.

Investigators are increasingly suspecting triacetone triperoxide (TATP), dubbed 'Mother of Satan,' in Monday's car blast near Red Fort. This highly un ...

Car tyres are black today due to the addition of carbon black, a substance that significantly enhances rubber's performance ...

Come winter and it is common phenomenon to see your hair become very dry and devoid of moisture, so much so, that they become ...

Rubbing a balloon on hair causes static electricity. Electrons transfer, giving the balloon a negative charge and the hair a ...

Abstract: Electrically-driven soft robots based on piezoelectric actuators may enable compact form factors and maneuverability in complex environments. In most prior work, piezoelectric actuators are ...

"I just came to pump gas. And did anybody know this about pumping?" she asks, before showing a warning label on the pump terminal stall. It reads: "Static hazard while filling portable containers.

Abstract: This article presents a strategy for the description of new test waveforms for static electricity meters to be included in international standards. The need of extending the existing ...

China's electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, saw steady expansion in September, rising 4.5 percent year-on-year to reach 888.6 billion kilowatt-hours, according to the ...

Researchers have developed a novel power generation system that uses the friction generated as everyday water moves in and out of precisely engineered nanometer-sized pores in silicon monoliths to ...