An electric charge (like a proton) creates an electric field in the region around it. This field points away from positive charges and decreases in strength as it gets farther away from the charge.

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.

In storm clouds, ice does more than just float or fall—it might actually help generate electricity. A new study in Nature ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String theory has not, however, fulfilled expectations. That is why we are of the ...

During the 1960s, spacecraft traveling above Earth's poles discovered a stream of particles flowing out of the Earth's poles, and theorized that there must be an unknown field driving these particles ...

Water has always responded well to sunlight, evaporating faster under the sun than when heated by other energy sources. For ...

The transverse Thomson effect is observed for the first time: current, heat, and magnetic fields generate controlled cooling ...