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Why do I get static shocks from everyday objects? Is it my shoes?

By Niusha Shafiabady, Associate Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University

Another day, another zap. Understanding the physics of static electricity can help you not get static shocks quite so often.

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