Randy Brooks will never forget the day he had to break the news — live on the air — to a woman that her husband had perished in a tornado.

Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head, and the transfer of charges will make your hair stand on end. Shuffle your feet on a carpet, ...

It’s the basis of some of the best-known classroom demonstrations: a phenomenon that literally makes your hair stand on end. Static electricity — or contact electrification or triboelectricity, to use ...

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Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head, and the transfer of charges will make your hair stand on end. Shuffle your feet on a carpet, ...

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively charged electrons to jump from the strands to the rubber. Because the different ...

Levitating matter with sound: A close-up photo of the experimental setup shows an acoustically levitated particle of silica. (Courtesy: Thomas Zauner/ISTA) If you’ve ever felt a shock after rubbing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When hair picks up an electrostatic charge, the strands repel each other and stand on end. (Whitney Hayward/Portland Press ...

Green MPs have written to Ed Miliband demanding he set out plans to decouple electricity prices from gas, after Sky News revealed he was "looking into" the policy. The letter calls for the government ...

Ed Miliband has told Labour MPs he is committed to looking at unhitching electricity prices from gas in a bid to bring down household bills. The energy secretary told a meeting of the Parliamentary ...

When microscopic particles of sand, ash, or dust collide in the air, they often exchange a tiny electrical charge. This tiny spark of static electricity can sometimes drive massive natural phenomena, ...