Physicist John Cerne can discuss the applications of physics in everyday life. He can answer media questions about the physics behind a wide variety of everyday phenomena, such as static electricity, ...

"Opposites charges attract; like charges repel" is a long-held fundamental principle of physics that you might have heard at school, but your teacher may have been wrong. Researchers from the ...

I find it odd that some people still express skepticism or outright denial of climate change science. Physicists derived one of the fundamental insights into climate change by 1850: Air holds 7% more ...

Here's a primer on physical considerations for sizing motors and drives. The goal of drive-system engineers is usually pretty straightforward. Specify the smallest motor and drive needed to accelerate ...

Quantum mechanics is concerned with the behavior of the tiniest of particles, and usually the mathematics behind it is relegated to this tiny realm. Now, a researcher from the California Institute of ...