In simple terms, static electricity is the result of an imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material. While positively-charged protons tend to stay put, electrons ...

There it goes! A spark forms as the electrons jump across the gap. And that’s why you sometimes get a static electric shock. Static electricity is a build-up of electrical charge on an object.

Strange metals defy the 60-year-old understanding of electric current as a flow of discrete charges. (Nanowerk News) We all learned that electricity is caused by electrons moving in a metal. Each ...