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

You've probably seen lightning flash across the sky, but do you know why and how it happens? This simple science activity ...

As incredible as it looks and sounds on camera, that much static electricity is Mother Nature's last-ditch effort to warn you before lightning strikes!

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 ... One coulomb is a very large amount of charge. Lightning striking a metal conductor rod. The rapid flow of charges heats the air to reach ...

Hummingbird flower mites use static electricity to hop between flowers. Researchers initially thought scent guided them.

Some electricity is made in power stations, where giant magnets spin inside coils of wire. This spinning motion produces an electric current. Power stations use energy from coal, gas, water, wind, or ...

Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field. The ones in microphones are very small, but in the video after the break [Jay Bowles ...