Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your hair and watched it stick to the wall? That’s static electricity in action!

(WJHL) Jon Krukelberg and Krissy Worth with Hands On! Discovery Center show us some fun activities using static electricity. For more information visit www.visithandson.org.

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times their body length. The research focused on a series of experiments using high ...

This spooky science trick uses a magnet and a paper clip to make paper ghosts seem to fly through the air. It's a fantastic ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...

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 ...

Many people don’t realize that STEM is all around us in our daily lives. This is one of the many reasons why WonderWorks ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. While bees get most of the pollination hype, butterflies and moths ...

Ticks can’t jump. But thanks to the forces of static electricity, sometimes, the arachnids can soar through the air, a new study says.

Rub a balloon on your hair and the balloon typically picks up a negative electric charge, while your hair goes positive. But a new study shows that the charge an object picks up can depend on its ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE ...