The A24 horror movie Backrooms ends in a place that seems designed to leave viewers talking. Exactly what happens at the movie’s most crucial moment takes a little symbolic unpacking. Why does it play ...

The Backrooms movie will be released in theaters on May 29. Liminal spaces – dreamy and nostalgic locales defined by their specific use as a transient space that you don’t spend much time in but ...

The Boroughs ending spoilers follow. More than just Stranger Things with senior citizens, Netflix's recent sci-fi drop The Boroughs took something as ordinary as aging and looked at it through a ...

Be careful what you wish for. This idea, often explored in fiction, lies at the center of “Obsession,” Focus Features‘ new horror film from writer/director/editor Curry Barker. The movie follows Bear ...

The Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors' combo system is the most powerful feature in the game, yet it's easily overlooked. If you play your cards in a certain order, you will ...

From Van de Graaff generators to flying kites in thunderstorms, scientists have spent centuries playing with the strange effects of static electricity — yet the details of the phenomenon remain ...

Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head, and the transfer of charges will make your hair stand on end. Shuffle your feet on a carpet, ...

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively charged electrons to jump from the strands to the rubber. Because the different ...

DENVER — Static electricity is a touchy subject. Touch or rub two materials together, and they can exchange electric charge. But the details behind the phenomenon of static electricity are poorly ...

It’s the basis of some of the best-known classroom demonstrations: a phenomenon that literally makes your hair stand on end. Static electricity — or contact electrification or triboelectricity, to use ...