The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.

CASCADE, Mich. — Looking for a fun activity to do at home with your kids? This science experiment is fun for all ages and teaches static electricity during the wintertime! Meteorologist Isabella ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your hair and watched it stick to the wall? That’s static electricity in action! Let’s see how you can make tiny pieces of tissue dance using just a balloon and some ...

If you ever wanted to be a wizard or just to try your hand at some magic tricks, you should learn the art of static electricity. Dr. Graeme Wyllie and Robin Fettig show us fun experiments with static ...

School closures due to the coronavirus outbreak mean borderland children are about to spend a lot more time at home. That’s challenging on any number of levels, with many of us wondering what can you ...

A century after Nikola Tesla sketched a turbine with no blades, researchers are now using that same counterintuitive design to pull useful power out of static electricity. The latest experiments pair ...

MILWAUKEE -- Do you feel like you're a human stun-gun lately? It's all that static electricity! Professor Maria and Dr. Molly Cule with Mad Science join Real Milwaukee to teach us all about it. Mad ...

Stewart C. Meyer Harker Heights Public Library clerk Heather Heilman leads the virtual Science Time program on Wednesday afternoons, and she always has something new and fun to bring to viewers. This ...

Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates an electrical current, something that was first recorded in 600 BCE yet not fully ...

Dan Tomaso is back with two weather experiments this week! One on static electricity using a simple balloon, and the other on heat which involves a little science magic. Be sure to get your parent’s ...