Feel like your car is constantly giving you a little zap of static shock every time you get out? You're not alone.

Now scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have identified a critical factor explaining that ...

For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the ...

and then discharge it with a dramatic spark. The Leyden jar is one of the first devices that allowed humans to store and release static electricity on command. It demonstrated that static charge ...

When you come into contact with something or someone charged with static electricity, you might experience what we commonly call a "shock." This shock is actually a tiny electric discharge ...

The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

Static electricity affects everyday life in familiar ways—the shock from touching a doorknob, a balloon sticking to a child’s ...

When you touch a car door handle, door, or another metal surface and feel a shock, the cause is the sudden discharge of static electricity. This is the same phenomenon behind the trick of ...

Static electricity is a build up of electric charge ... But without any way for the charge to escape, it builds up in the dome. You can discharge a charged object by giving it a way to drain ...

A Corona motor makes use of a cool phenomenon called the Corona discharge, which is the ionization of a fluid (in this case, air) surrounding a conductor that is energized. He’s done other high ...