Northwestern University scientists have made a new contribution to understanding a long-standing phenomenon called static electricity. In their most recent research, the researchers found that such ...

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For millennia, scientists have puzzled over the reason why rubbing two insulators together can produce static cling — and you may be shocked to hear that the standard explanation is wrong. Static ...