The Bakken Museum in South Minneapolis allows people to learn about the awkward and sometimes painful feeling.

Grounding means connecting to the Earth ... just like when you zapped your buddy with static electricity. They could use you and the Earth to get back to their source. That's bad.

Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they represent an untapped source of energy. Using a device called a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), ...

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 ...

Static electricity is a build up of electric charge ... a charged object by giving it a way to drain its electrons into the ground, like via this conductive rod. There it goes!