The film follows David and his sister Marilyn as they explore the concept of electricity. They learn about static electricity through everyday experiences, such as David's flashlight and Marilyn's ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To the uninitiated, electricity might seem like a sort of hidden ...

Inductors are simple coils of wire, but they play a powerful role in electronics. This video explains how inductors store ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University and University of California, Santa Barbara) and John M.

Electricity powers our lives, including our cars, phones, computers, and more, through the movement of electrons within a ...

Transient cosmic ray phenomena produced by a solar superstorm can be linked to variations in atmospheric electricity.

Rub a balloon on your hair and the balloon typically picks up a negative electric charge, while your hair goes positive. But a new study shows that the charge an object picks up can depend on its ...

but do you know why a car even needs energy? Let's start by considering a car traveling on the highway. There are essentially four forces acting on it. Gravity is pulling the car down but the ground ...

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Cooling materials to extremely low temperatures is important for basic physics research as well as for technological applications. By improving a special refrigerator and a low-temperature thermometer ...

A weird phenomenon in which electricity flows like water was spotted in a nanowire made of "strange metal" — a bizarre metal phase that has stumped physicists for 40 years. When you purchase through ...