It took 10-year-old Rylie Rodgers three days to come up with the idea of creating a filtration system — and to construct a system using paper cups, straws, cardboard, color ...

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the case.

A microscopic layer of environmental carbon solves a long-standing mystery about static electricity's true origins.

A team of physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria has now identified what breaks that symmetry: a thin, ...

A growing body of research is shifting how scientists explain static electricity, pointing to surface contamination and contact history rather than the inherent properties of materials as the primary ...

When high-voltage electricity breaks out in open air, it rips through the atmosphere, forming chaotic, branching fingers of electric plasma. These electrical arcs are difficult to control. They branch ...

From among STEM-focused students in grades six through 12 from 23 Lancaster and Lebanon county schools, Hempfield senior Ethan Albright was named 2026 Grand Champion at the North Museum Science ...