A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...

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For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

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A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...

Skirting boards tend to be covered in dust no matter how many times you clean them, but there is a quick way to keep them ...

Luckily, the solution here is pretty simple. Dusting your records off with an anti-static record brush will both sweep off ...

A cleaning expert has shared a 'weird' hack to stop dust from building up in your home, and it's all to do with the heating ...

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