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

Bengaluru: If you've been feeling tiny jolts on touching metal surfaces in Bengaluru, you're not alone. As the city ...

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

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

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

The Bakken Museum in South Minneapolis allows people to learn about the awkward and sometimes painful feeling.

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 cling can be frustrating and possibly even embarrassing—no one wants to leave the house with an extra sock clinging to ...

If static is your dreaded enemy, there's an easy DIY solution that claims to take the zing out of that cling. But should you try it? Here's what we know.

Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field. The ones in microphones are very small, but in the video after the break [Jay Bowles ...