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.

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

"We always looked at how physics influenced biology, but at some point, we realized that biology might also be influencing physics," says first author Ellard Hunting, a biologist at the University of ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of “macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in ...