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For Santa Rosa Junior College’s Black History Month, drawn Black characters leap from the pages of over 100 years of comic ...

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From a tiny electric jolt when touching a doorknob to styrofoam peanuts that cling to a mischievous cat's fur -- the well-known and seemingly simple phenomenon of static electricity has puzzled people ...

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

According to Sobarzo’s and colleagues, this problem has been confounded by the diverse array of variables associated with a material’s contact electrification. These include its electronic properties, ...

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.

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

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.

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