Getting an electrical shock can be startling to terrifying. Startling, like a zap from a light switch. Or terrifying, like when I stood inside of large piece of electrical distribution equipment ...

Scientists have discovered that water moving over surfaces generates significantly more electrical charge than previously believed, particularly when it sticks and then slips past tiny obstacles. This ...

"To put things into perspective, the amount of electrical charge that water made by moving over the PTFE surface was more than a million times smaller than the static shock you might get from ...

This wire is connected to earth via the plug socket to a metal plate or water pipe underground ... helping to protect the user from electric shock and the appliance from overheating and starting ...

And that’s why you sometimes get a static electric shock. Static electricity is a ... or deflect a stream of water, even though only the balloon has been electrically charged.