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We've probably all heard explanations about how static electricity builds up in response to friction. According to the authors of a new paper, nearly all of them are wrong.

The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE. Even after 2,600 years’ worth of tiny shocks, however, researchers couldn’t fully explain how rubbing two objects together causes ...

A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates an electrical current, something that was first recorded in 600 BCE yet not fully ...

A century after Nikola Tesla sketched a turbine with no blades, researchers are now using that same counterintuitive design ...

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Researchers have introduced a contactless electricity generation method using only practical compressed air and ...

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