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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have overturned a 180-year-old scientific assumption, proving ...

How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely ...

There is now a new addition to the magnetic family: thanks to experiments at the Swiss Light Source SLS, researchers have proved the existence of altermagnetism. The experimental discovery of this new ...

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 ...

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In this video, Jonny Nelson introduces an animated explanation of circuits and how they work. Electrical current transfers energy around circuits.

If the sign of a successful scientific theory is that you get more out of it than you put in, then the most successful of all must be Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Starting from a few ...

There is a super-weird thing about induction cooking, and that’s how the pan gets hot. When you cook with gas or standard ...

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SANTA FE — The notion that LGBTQ+ individuals tend to gravitate toward one another naturally to form communities is known colloquially as “queer magnetism.” Like “gaydar,” it is not a scientific ...