A curious dog discovers and reacts to static electricity, creating playful and amusing moments.

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A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

Energy used to be a budget line item—important and predictable. Today, it is increasingly a geopolitical variable and operational constraint.

But powerful magnets are usually large and energy hungry. Chukun Gao at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and her colleagues sought to build a small ultra-strong magnet that would ...

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The spark that transfers a charge from one carbon particle to another, generating lightning and possibly life itself, is finally understood.

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The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.

If you’ve ever felt a shock after rubbing your hair with a balloon or shuffling across a carpet, you’ll know that static electricity can be a real pain. But for the scientists who study it, the pain ...