An international team of scientists, led by Olaf Scholten, professor of astrophysics at the University of Groningen, has ...

Scientists have accidentally uncovered a surprising behavior in commercial airplanes: they emit radio waves when they release ...

Static electricity is an imbalance in the amount of positive and negative charges found with in the surface of an object. The sudden flow of static electricity or Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can ...

Analysis of enhanced recovery footage suggests that electrostatic discharge, likely generated by the recovery helicopter's prop wash interacting with the antenna, caused the premature detonation of ...

As in the title, this happened the other day when I touched my computer's side panel (Antec P183 case). Reading about this phenomena on the net has been almost comical, with individuals who claim to ...

Don’t you hate in the winter time when someone comes up to you and “shocks” you? In this week’s Sunday Science Tidbit, we’re going to talk about static electricity. Static electricity is the result of ...

There's a reason you may notice it more in the winter. Excess static electricity is always a shock to the system—literally—but if you're experiencing shocks more so than not, annoying is an ...

Available in a variety of standard colors, Static Paint is also available in custom colors. Why an effective antistatic paint is needed to protect sensitive areas, operations and facilities from the ...

Sebastian Deffner is affiliated with the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Static electricity is a ubiquitous part of everyday life. It’s all around us, ...