That quick zap when you touch a doorknob or car door is actually a small burst of built-up electricity, and winter creates ...

Purdue University physics professor Erica Carlson explains why static electricity is worse in winter and offers practical ...

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

Read full article: Here’s how to protect your plants from frost or freeze ORLANDO, Fla. – Winter is right around the corner, but the weather has begun to get colder and drier across Central Florida.

A New Jersey dad has been applauded for stepping in to protect his family from the adverse effects of their "super static couch." Everyone has experienced the sudden surprise of a static shock. It's ...

The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE. Even after 2,600 years’ worth of tiny shocks, however, researchers couldn’t fully explain how rubbing two objects together causes ...

MACON, Ga. — Do you get annoyed when you want to pet or cuddle your furbaby in the winter and they shock you? How rude, right?! Don't blame your pet for those small bolts of electricity -- blame the ...

Dry air from Arctic front creates perfect conditions for unexpected zaps.

Shuffling across the carpet to zap a friend may be the oldest trick in the book, but on a deep level that prank still mystifies scientists, even after thousands of years of study. Now Princeton ...

These Dachshunds’ winter static hair is out of control in the best way possible, and we can’t stop laughing at their ...

Hair raising research Research that will make your hair stand on end shows many of the assumptions about static electricity are incorrect. In a paper, published online in today's Science Express, ...