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Door handles, taps, playground slides, furry pets… Getting zapped by static electricity is a common experience. But the physics that causes the spark is surprisingly intricate. If you're getting ...

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Is it true that static stretching improves performance and prevents injury? We see it all the time — people lacing their fingers and pulling their arms behind their bodies to stretch their biceps or ...

In three recent studies, Chinese researchers have delayed natural aging in healthy mice by continuous exposure to quasi-homogeneous static magnetic fields (SMFs) of moderate intensity, mitigated ...