Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much more ...

When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

Explore the simple machines behind Buffalo’s grain elevators and the physics that power them. Buffalo’s grain elevators changed the world! In this episode of Compact Science we uncover how a local ...