Credit: public domain Though not exactly a machine for generating static electricity, the Leyden jar is a critical part of early electrostatic experiments. Effectively a static electricity storage ...

The energy project being worked on alongside researchers from Riga ... taking advantage of friction in small places to create ...

People have been flying into theaters to see “Wicked," which features the very popular song "Defying Gravity." Kitchen Pantry Scientist Liz Heinecke shows off some gravity-defying experiments using ...

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 ...

Hold the circle of plastic up high and put the balloon underneath it. Let the plastic go and see if you can make it hover using static electricity from the balloon. If the plastic and balloon are well ...

Static electricity is the movement of electrons between two objects, just like lightning. Raindrops, ice particles, and hailstones bump into each other and rub together creating polarized electrical ...

Several experiments were exhibited to show the ... by which gunpowder wus fired. The evolution of static electricity by evaporation was illustrated by pouring water into a small heated vessel ...

The energy project being worked on alongside researchers ... taking advantage of friction in small places to create static electricity. It could have everyday applications. "There's potential ...

And it’s all because of static electricity. Static electricity is a build up of electric charge on an object, and it can have some pretty strange effects. See, everything around us is made up of ...