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

As soon as the 2018-2019 shutdown began, coal-fired power plants started emitting more particulate matter pollution. And when ...

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 ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

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

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found.

Thomas Cooper, 5, of Royal Oak died in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber fire Jan. 31 at the Oxford Center in Troy. The CEO of the Oxford Center and three workers are criminally charged in Thomas' death.

Troy — Immediately before fire erupted in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber where 5-year-old Thomas Cooper was receiving treatment in late January, the boy's knee may have touched the mattress, possibly ...