If you've ever greeted someone or touched metal and felt a shock, it means there's too much energy built up. Experts explain the science behind it.

When you come into contact with something or someone charged with static electricity, you might experience what we commonly call a "shock." This shock is actually a tiny electric discharge ...

Even its name is somewhat misleading, as this “electricity” is not static, but is the result of charge transfer from one electrically neutral material to another. For that reason, it’s also called ...

But why is that? We explore what static electricity is, why you can get a static shock from your car, and what you can do about it. Static electricity happens as the result of an imbalance between ...

Sometimes when you touch something metal, you can get a little electric shock, even if it’s not connected to a power source. And it’s all because of static electricity. Static electricity is a ...

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 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 ...

As the city transitions from winter to summer, static electricity shocks are becoming a common complaint. Medical experts explain that the culprit is dry air. Humidity levels drop significantly ...

(Courtesy: ISTA) Physicists in Austria have shown that the static electricity acquired by identical material samples can evolve differently over time, based on each samples’ history of contact with ...

It will be a little expensive and after installation, it will help the consumers to know about their electricity consumption and use it sparingly, say officials ...