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 ...

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 ...

Car illustration with electric zap icons all around. There are only two ways for a car to zap someone unexpectedly, and the sources and solutions are different for each one. A common reason that ...

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 ...

You see those warning labels on fuel pumps, reminding you to discharge any static electricity built up on your body before touching the pump nozzle and gassing up your chariot. Last week at a ...

My sub goes from on (blue light) to stand by (orange light) when certain items int he rooms are statically zapped (I thought them when sitting down). All of this occurs in the same room, where ...

But to get the most out of the adhesive, engineers usually call for a rough surface, giving the adhesive plenty of sites to form mechanical bonds. Unfortunately, these rough surfaces create networks ...

Static electricity is a ubiquitous part of everyday life. It’s all around us, sometimes funny and obvious, as when it makes your hair stand on end, sometimes hidden and useful, as when harnessed by ...

There are only two ways for a car to zap someone unexpectedly, and the sources and solutions are different for each one. A common reason that people are shocked by their cars is static electricity.