For decades, scientists treated Martian dust storms as mostly mechanical events, driven by wind and sunlight rather than ...

A science demonstration by Mayur Vaishnav at Sandipani English School in Gujarat’s Halvad town captured students’ excitement ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Discovery Center Museum is offering an engaging experiment using styrofoam beads and a balloon, demonstrating how positive and negative charges interact.

The weather has suddenly taken a turn, and there's a chilly bite in the air—cue lashings of lip balm on chapped lips, oversized winter coats and hats to keep our ears toasty. The trouble is, as soon ...

Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your hair and watched it stick to the wall? That’s static electricity in action! Let’s see how you can make tiny pieces of tissue dance using just a balloon and some ...

This experiment demonstrates how static electricity can “remember” previous charges, revealing surprising properties of electrical interactions and material behavior. Tropical Storm Melissa update as ...

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...

Frying a computer component with static is one of those things that very rarely ever happens. Yet it can happen, as I found out recently through personal experience — when building a new PC, I made a ...

This boy has been sliding down a plastic slide; the rubbing of his trousers against the slide has given him a static electrical charge. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. In ancient Greece, philosopher Thales ...