André-Marie Ampère

Former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén turns 60 and actor Evan Peters turns 37, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 20.

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Luis Caffarelli's work includes equations underpinning physical phenomena, such as melting ice and flowing liquids

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Update, April 4, 2025: As a result of the tariffs, Nintendo has delayed US pre-orders for the Switch 2 from its origina…

Musician Sid Wilson turns 48 and actor Evan Peters turns 38, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 20.

In order to answer the question "How do we measure electricity", it is important to first understand what we are trying to measure. Given that electricity is just a form of energy, we could start with its most basic measurement, the joule. The joule, named after James Prescott Joule, is equivalent to the amount of […]

Our world is often described as "the digital age," but in reality, we're only living in the latest chapter of the electric revolution.

Ampère's theory was fundamental to electronic inventions such as motors and generators

In the late nineteenth century, research in electromagnetism became intertwined with the Victorian British Empire's ambitions to install a global network of submarine telegraph cables. In Imperial Science, Bruce Hunt details how the desire for quick communications from London to Egypt, and then on to India, drove progress in the physical sciences towards a theory of the electromagnetic field.

Have you ever wondered how different some fundamental force fields, like gravity and magenetism, really are from each other? I wanted to elucidate the provenance of these basic physics principles. To help me with that, I asked ChatGPT4 to provide a conversation between 19th century physicists. Then I started to troll them. Me: Does gravity curve space? Yes, according to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity,…

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Musician Paul Stanley turns 70 and astronaut Buzz Aldrin turns 92, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 20.

Sheldon Glashow continues his stroll through the history of physics, making his way in this installment from waves and particles as they apply to sound, light, and matter to Einstein's general and special relativity.

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Musician Questlove turns 52 and actor Evan Peters turns 36, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 20.