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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Master vector derivatives in polar coordinates with this clear physics tutorial! Learn step-by-step how to compute derivatives, understand radial and angular components, and apply them to mechanics ...

The Master of Science in Physics offers advanced training in core areas of physics and topics of current research. Students wishing to complete this master's degree will find a learning environment ...

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 ...