Physicists finally know what creates static electricity: The beginning and the end of the sliding motion that produces static electricity experience different forces – resulting in a charge differential between the front and the back that results in the crackle of static electricity.

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Hints of a Hidden Structure Detected at the Edge of the Solar System

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JWST Has Spotted Six Rogue Planets, Without a Star to Call Home

Scientists Build a Simple Gel 'Brain' That Learns How to Play Pong Better

China Launches Satellites For Major Network To Rival Starlink

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Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, but Something Else Does, Study Says

New HIV Prevention Drug Shows 100% Efficacy in Clinical Trial

Surprise Hair Loss Breakthrough: Sugar Gel Triggers Robust Regrowth

Fastest Object Ever Made By Humans Continues Circling the Sun, 500x Faster Than Sound

Earth's Water Is Rapidly Losing Oxygen, and the Danger Is Huge

Brain-Invading Parasite Could Be Hacked to Deliver Meds in Your Head

Physicists have created the most fiendishly difficult maze

Gobsmacking Study Finds Life on Earth Emerged 4.2B Years Ago

Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit the Self After All

We Know What Turned on the Lights at the Dawn of Time

Hydrothermal environment discovered deep beneath the ocean

'Equals' has more than one meaning in math

Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment

Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass

Ancient Star Seen Zooming Through Space at 600 Kilometers per Second

Mathematicians Accidentally Found a New Way to Represent Pi

The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive

Third Form of Life Makes Energy in 'Remarkable' Ways, Scientists Discover

Evidence of earth's first rains found trapped within primordial crystals

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