The magnetic field around a current-carrying wire is described. Electromagnetism: The magnetic field around a current-carrying wire is described. Students learn to apply right-hand rules to straight ...

Learn about Michael Faraday’s discoveries, scholarly significance, and influence on contemporary physics to see why he is regarded as the father of electromagnetism.

Mythology has its titans. So do the movies. And so does physics. Just one fewer now. Steven Weinberg died July 23, at the age of 88. He was one of the key intellectual leaders in physics during the ...

Electromagnetic knots represent intricate, three-dimensional configurations in which electric and magnetic field lines interlace to form non‐trivial topological structures. These configurations, ...

Michael Murphy receives funding from the Australian Research Council. There’s an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature’s laws which physicists have been trying to explain for ...

A team of scientists have solved the longstanding problem of how electrons move together as a group inside cylindrical nanoparticles. A team of scientists have solved the longstanding problem of how ...

At their foundations, physics and art are connected by form. This was the underlying message of a talk by Jack Leibowitz, a condensed matter researcher at the Catholic University of America. He was ...

An interface between media with different helicities (red and blue curly arrows) supports zero-helicity linearly polarized surface modes (green arrow). (Credit: Konstantin Bliokh) Maxwell’s ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Michael Murphy, Professor of Astrophysics, Swinburne ...