Heading into this weekend, we’re expecting a decent cool down thanks to a cold front. This is likely to bring our coldest ...

Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your hair and watched it stick to the wall? That’s static electricity in action!

On November 1, 2025, in Anhui, China, a young girl experienced a funny moment when her hair stood on end from static ...

Ticks can’t jump. But thanks to the forces of static electricity, sometimes, the arachnids can soar through the air, a new study says.

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

X's new "about this account" section could make it a lot easier to identify scammy accounts X has long been a hotbed for fake accounts, bots and other scammy behavior. Many of those dynamics have been ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and a lot of other socialists didn't do their homework when they were praising European socialism. "We should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from ...