How does static electricity work? Learn more about these electrical chargers and how they may have been a key to life.

The spinning steel and plastic components of a combine, insulated from the ground by rubber tires and plastic skid shoes on small grain platforms, have been proven to create a static electric charge ...

Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much more ...

Frying a computer component with static is one of those things that very rarely ever happens. Yet it can happen, as I found out recently through personal experience — when building a new PC, I made a ...

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2002 — The Alliance to Save Energy got a pleasant “shock” Saturday night when it discovered that its “Static Electricity House” television spot on home energy efficiency was voted ...