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

However, these ladies clearly didn't realize how much danger they were in at this moment. As neat as the effects of static electricity are, having that much ambient static electricity in the air ...

This clip demonstrates the dangers of approaching a powerful source of electricity and includes images of what children may see in their local environment. To explain the risks, a dummy is moved ...

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), ...