Static electricity—specifically the triboelectric effect, aka contact electrification—is ubiquitous in our daily lives, found in such things as a balloon rubbed against one’s hair or styrofoam packing ...

There’s such a compelling idea in exploring the terror of isolation, compounded by the responsibility of manning something as critical to other people’s survival ...

Giant polypropylene rollers at the 3M factory generated so much static electricity that it formed a strange "invisible wall" that would alarm and impede employees there. William Beatty, citing David ...

Scientists have a new plan to test a bizarre theory that’s resisted confirmation for decades. Some physicists theorize that when the universe expanded, whatever quantum static existed at the time got ...