Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Other teams are investigating how surface area and velocity during impact might govern charge transfer, and how the breaking ...

This familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

Policing plan 'worked' says Met - as it confirms both protest have dispersed The Met has just released another statement which says the demonstrations both "concluded and dispersed at 3pm as planned".

DNA inside the nucleus is not packed as a rigid regular fiber—linker histone H1 dynamically binds and loosely "glues" ...

Nearly all new TVs and projectors have the ability to decode HDR, or high dynamic range, video. In most cases, HDR content looks better than non-HDR material, though an individual display's ability to ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. The Home Secretary has agreed to ban an Iran-linked march in central London, but a “static” ...