As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. As we learn more about electricity, we have to talk about fields. Electric fields may seem complicated, but they're really fascinating ...

Discover the physics behind stamps sticking to envelopes, from fundamental forces to Van der Waals interactions, explained concisely.

Moving on to our unit on the Physics of Electricity, it's time to talk about charge. Moving on to our unit on the Physics of Electricity, it's time to talk about charge. What is charge? Is there a ...

Born 175 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell carried out the first profound unification of nature’s forces. Francis Everitt examines the immense contributions of the greatest mathematical physicist since ...

A former NASA engineer working on a propellant-less propulsion drive has claimed that the device can deliver enough thrust to achieve lift in Earth's gravity, an effect which should not take place ...

Scientists in the United States have come up with a physics-based algorithm that could one day make it possible for nuclear ...

You're sitting in physics class, working on a traditional problem involving forces and acceleration, when you start to wonder where these terms even came from. Were they just dreamed up to bring ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have achieved a significant breakthrough that has the potential to ...

For almost a century, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a ...

In a recent stunt, a Ford crew hitched an all-electric F-150 pickup truck to a freight train filled with 42 more F-150s. Then a driver hit the throttle, and the pickup truck towed the 1.3 ...