A century after Nikola Tesla sketched a turbine with no blades, researchers are now using that same counterintuitive design to pull useful power out of static electricity. The latest experiments pair ...

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

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For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the Waitukaitis group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) ...

Taking flight: a parasitic roundworm prepares to jump on its host. (Courtesy: Victor M Ortega-Jimenez) Researchers in the US have discovered that a tiny jumping worm uses static electricity to ...

In high school physics classes, students are often taught that static electricity develops when electrons detach from the surface of one object and jump to another, causing a difference in charge.

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 build ...

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