Imagine if we could use strong electromagnetic fields to manipulate the local properties of spacetime—this could have important ramifications in terms of science and engineering. Electromagnetism has ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of frequencies covering the spectrum of radiation. It covers wavelengths from thousands of miles to a fraction of the size of an atomic nucleus. Bands of ...