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

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 ...

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

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

How could this ubiquitous effect, frequently demonstrated to bedazzled children by rubbing a balloon on their hair, still not be completely understood by scientists? Static electricity goes by ...

DOI: Soft and Complex Materials research group at ISTA In the lab at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA): First author Juan Carlos Sobarzo measures how identical samples exchange ...

Heat styling tools such as blow dryers, straighteners, and curling irons use a lot of electricity and damage your hair in the ...