Students learn how electromagnetic waves are produced and transmitted through space. Students learn how electromagnetic waves are produced and transmitted through space. The seven types of ...

“Electromagnetism” is a silent educational film from the late 1920s that explains the basic principles of electromagnetism using simple animations, diagrams, and live-action demonstrations. The film ...

Atoms, as we know them, are composed of protons and electrons, which are held together with a bonding force known as electromagnetism. Electromagnetism occurs because protons have a positive charge ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.

Many objects around you contain electromagnets. They are found in electric motors and loudspeakers. Electric bells like the ones used in most schools also contain an electromagnet. The slideshow ...

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow , School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University It’s hard to imagine life without mobile phones, radio and television. Yet the discovery of the electromagnetic ...

More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" (1865). What would our lives be without this ...

Magnets, how do they work? Although the quantum mechanics behind ferromagnetism are by no means easy, a few simple experiments can give you a good grasp of how magnets attract and repel each other, ...