In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

You will complete eight required practical activities if you are studying GCSE Physics and 21 if you are studying GCSE Combined Science. There will be a number of different types of practical based ...

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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 ...

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