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, ...

The most useful skill I learnt during my studies, other than technical physics knowledge, was definitely programming. It comes into everything I do now; even simple every-day tasks often involve a ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...