A wild idea has been proposed to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation with the help of magnetic fields. A new ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are harnessing the power of computers to ...

If you took introductory physics, you learned about the “fundamental forces.” It goes something like this: All interactions are the result of one or more of five basic forces: strong nuclear ...

Scientists know well how conventional materials conduct heat. However, things are not as straightforward under extreme ...

In an ultra-cold, high-magnetic-field setting, ZrTe5 defies expectations by showing quantum heat oscillations. Researchers ...

With today’s data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow. Initial experiments have already shown a promising new strategy: Magnetic ...

The Biot-Savart law states that an electrical current flowing through a wire will generate a magnetic field around itself represented by vectors that twist around like a vortex.

Highly charged heavy ions form a very suitable experimental field for investigating quantum electrodynamics (QED), the ...

With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ...

There may be more northern lights – or aurora borealis – sightings this spring. As we near the spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, on March 20, the Earth's magnetic field and ...

The ability to conduct heat is one of the most fundamental properties of matter, crucial for engineering applications.