Electricity is extremely dangerous, but also extremely useful when we can contain it and send it from A to B. It turns out ...

Electric sparks are used for welding, powering electronics, killing germs or for igniting the fuel in some car engines.

If the EMF of the individual conductors can’t be reduced, it must be accounted for and mitigated properly by the transmission line designer through the employment of other methods. The EMF experienced ...

Important material properties can be explained at the level of quantum physics - for example, whether a material conducts electricity or not. Analysing such quantum states has now revealed that there ...

He was as happy working with brass bands as he was conducting the music of avant-garde giants like Stockhausen, Ligeti and Henze Elgar Howarth, who has died aged 89, was a trumpeter, conductor and ...

A retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) was assaulted by a bus conductor in Jaipur, allegedly over his refusal to pay an extra ₹10. A retired officer of the Indian ...

“Our niobium phosphide conductors show that it’s possible to send faster, more efficient signals through ultrathin wires. This could improve the energy efficiency of future chips, and even small gains ...