Get the essentials on static and kinetic friction forces! This video covers the key differences between these two types of friction, how to calculate them, and real-world examples to help you ...

The Discovery Center Museum is offering an engaging experiment using styrofoam beads and a balloon, demonstrating how ...

It’s a Balloon Experiment for teens in Watson Chapel on Tuesday.  A balloon experiment is a fun and engaging activity that ...

Rubbing a balloon on hair causes static electricity. Electrons transfer, giving the balloon a negative charge and the hair a ...

The twentieth century brought incredible scientific breakthroughs. It also brought some of the strangest and darkest ...

Have you ever rubbed a balloon on your hair and watched it stick to the wall? That’s static electricity in action! Let’s see how you can make tiny pieces of tissue dance using just a balloon and some ...

Benjamin Franklin experimented with electricity on fowl. Portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, courtesy of The Library of Congress In 1751 Benjamin Franklin planned an electrical ...

This boy has been sliding down a plastic slide; the rubbing of his trousers against the slide has given him a static electrical charge. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. In ancient Greece, philosopher Thales ...

As humans we often think we have a pretty good handle on the basics of the way the world works, from an intuition about gravity good enough to let us walk around, play baseball, and land spacecraft on ...