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Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates an electrical current, something that was first recorded in 600 BCE yet not fully ...

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Editor’s note: On September 26, 2022, Nature retracted the study described in this article after other researchers raised concerns regarding how the data were processed and analyzed. “We have now ...