Kazuya Kikunaga (Researcher), Kazuhiro Nonaka (Leader), Kazufumi Sakai (Invited Senior Researcher), and Toshihiro Kamohara (AIST Postdoctoral Researcher), Optical Measurement Solution Team, the ...

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 ...

Ancient Greeks discovered that when animal fur and amber were rubbed together, the fur could be used to attract feathers, glass dust and other lightweight objects. It wasn’t until 1600 AD, however, ...

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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.