The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

As America’s energy demands grow exponentially, the country won’t be able to keep up without more nuclear power. For decades, ...

For nearly 40 years, Uranus carried a reputation as the planet that broke the rulebook. Voyager 2 arrived in Jan. 1986 and found a contradiction no one could neatly resolve: a magnetosphere that ...

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Abstract: The discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) method with p-adaptive and local time stepping (LTS) strategies, widely employed for simulating various electromagnetic wave phenomena, faces ...

Understand Faraday’s Law like never before! This video simplifies how a moving bar magnet induces an electromotive force (EMF) in a coil, making one of physics’ most important principles easy to grasp ...

Explore the foundations of electromagnetism with a deep dive into Maxwell’s Equations and the wave equation! This video breaks down these fundamental physics concepts, showing how electric and ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

Indicator species are living organisms that tell us that something has changed or is going to change in their environment. They can be easily observed, and studying them is considered a cost-effective ...

Abstract: Most existing back-electromotive-force (EMF) observer necessitates a phase-locked loop (PLL) for real-time observer parameter updating, i.e., the rotor’s angular speed. However, the observer ...

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...