A stream of compressed air does not look like a power source. In factories, it usually hisses through pipes, drives tools, then disappears as waste.

The spinning steel and plastic components of a combine, insulated from the ground by rubber tires and plastic skid shoes on small grain platforms, have been proven to create a static electric charge ...

How does static electricity work? Learn more about these electrical chargers and how they may have been a key to life.

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 more ...

Video footage shows about 40 minutes into his hyperbaric oxygen treatment at Troy's Oxford Center, 5-year-old Thomas Cooper moved around inside the chamber enough to pull the sheet off the mattress — ...

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2002 — The Alliance to Save Energy got a pleasant “shock” Saturday night when it discovered that its “Static Electricity House” television spot on home energy efficiency was voted ...