A team of physicists has developed a powerful new way of simulating strange magnetic structures known as ...

A trio of US researchers claim to have successfully tested predictions that it's possible to harvest clean energy from the natural rhythms and processes of our planet, generating electricity as Earth ...

In 1862, James Clerk Maxwell published his famous Maxwell’s equations. This was at a time when humans were just starting to play around with batteries and electric currents. The first two of these ...

The field of spintronics, which integrates the charge and spin properties of electrons to develop electronic devices with enhanced functionality and energy efficiency, has expanded into new ...

Dr Charles Buhler has been the lead NASA scientist on Electrostatics. An experiment last month was sent to the moon and ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

Science can’t be rushed, but fusion’s true believers think capturing the sun in a bottle could light humanity’s future.

The field of spintronics, which integrates the charge and spin properties of electrons to develop electronic devices with ...

Geomagnetic storms that produce these lights are the result of massive eruptions from the sun's surface, and are most ...

This voltage difference, or Hall voltage, is caused by the force that the magnetic field exerts on the moving electric charges in the conductor. The Hall Effect can be used to measure the type ...

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...