So if it's purely a chemical process, then why does motion exacerbate it? My 4 year-old already knows about static electricity, even here in Honolulu.

Thousands Of Years After Discovering Static Electricity We Finally Know How It Works As Benjamin Franklin found out, rubbing is key.

The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE. Even after 2,600 years’ worth of tiny shocks, however, researchers couldn’t fully explain how rubbing two objects together ...

What is electricity, and how does it work? What does it mean for electricity to seek a path to ground? These answers and more, plus a brief history of the War of the Currents, inside.

To really understand how electricity works, we need to dig into the laws of physics and the forces of nature.

The same force that zaps us in the winter may be how a summer parasite gets around. Dan Smith highlights new research between ticks and static electricity, in your "Moment of Science".

You don't have to be a physicist—or an electrician—to understand electricity.