He quickly felt the expected pinch of static discharge. Next came a far more severe shock: Every LED on every switch in the .

These static shocks happen more often in winters because the air is typically drier than the summer air. The humidity levels ...

Static electricity is everywhere, especially in your house. “Everyone has experienced that unexpected shock when folding laundry or touching a metal object in their home,” says John Bell ...

Normally electrostatic sparks are very small. If the object has a lot of charge, then these sparks can be hundreds of metres long. Sparks can occur between charged objects and people. Sometimes ...

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 ...

Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field. The ones in microphones are very small, but in the video after the break [Jay Bowles ...