Some parasitic nematodes are known to propel themselves explosively into the air to land on their insect prey.A new study by ...

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

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 ...

Butterflies and moths collect so much static electricity whilst in flight, that pollen grains from flowers can be pulled by static electricity across air gaps of several millimetres or centimetres.

Static wicks are designed to discharge static electricity built up on an aircraft, not to prevent lightning strikes. Aircraft accumulate static charge by moving through the air, with greater charges ...

The parasitic roundworm Steinernema carpocapsae, which live in soil, are already known to leap some 25 times their body ...

There's a reason you may notice it more in the winter. Excess static electricity is always a shock to the system—literally—but if you're experiencing shocks more so than not, annoying is an ...

The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE. Even after 2,600 years’ worth of tiny shocks, however, researchers couldn’t fully explain how rubbing two objects together causes ...

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

An invention made from waste polystyrene that generates static electricity from motion and wind could lower power usage by recycling waste energy in air conditioners and other applications. An ...