Scientists uncover why petting your cat can be shocking - After centuries, researchers have an answer for how rubbing a ...

For the first time, scientists explain how rubbing a surface creates electrical current. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Study discovered that sliding creates different forces at the front and back of objects. This causes uneven charges and ...

Anyone who has ever pet a cat or shuffled their feet across the carpet knows that rubbing objects together generates static ...

The world city of Ephesus, home to the Temple of Artemis — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world — was located 50 miles north of Miletus. At precisely this moment, Heraclitus, the Ionian from ...

Anyone who has ever pet a cat or shuffled their feet across the carpet knows that rubbing objects together generates static ...

Who are the top ancient Greek philosophers, and what are their contributions to philosophy and modern life? Read on to ...

But life would be different for Aspasia. Born in Miletus, an Ionian Greek settlement on the coast of Western Turkey, she would not be bound by the same rules that restricted Athenian citizen women ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the phenomenon of static electricity generated by rubbing objects together. After more ...

In the eastern Aegean, Minoan pottery has been found in Rhodes. Minoan artifacts and cooking equipment have been found at Miletus, a city in Anatolia that would have attracted the Cretans for its ...

Gone are the days when business leaders could separate "people issues" from "business issues" and manage them through a set of preplanned process steps. Today’s leaders face more complex and ...

In 451 Pericles introduced a new citizenship law which prevented the son of an Athenian father and a non-Athenian mother becoming a full citizen. The law's main effect was to curb the power of the ...