One of the joys of an itinerant existence comes in periodically being reunited with the fruits of various orders that were sent to hackerspaces or friends somewhere along the way. These anonymous ...

What is Electromagnetic Radiation? When you sit in front of a computer or television, you are being bombarded by harmful waves quietly emanating from it. Even if you turn off the device, your ...

The French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL) has successfully conducted the first outdoor, free-flight test shot ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. To most of us, those fields are undetectable. But a small number of people believe they have an actual allergy to electromagnetic ...

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case. How many fundamental forces are there in our universe? For particle physicists, answering ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is defined as the capability of electrical equipment and systems to function competently in an electromagnetic environment. In a system that requires EMC, ...

You have a wire that is carring an AC current through a magnetic field caused by two magnets. The current flowing in the wire is in the X direction and the magnetic field is in the Y direction. In ...