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Scientists have discovered that Earth’s magnetosphere is charged opposite to what was once believed. The area of space ...

A nematode (C. elegans) jumps onto a bumblebee along an electrical field to hitch a ride. Credit: Chiba et al., 2023 Japanese scientists working with nematodes (C. elegans) noticed one day that ...

An electric charge (like a proton) creates an electric field in the region around it. This field points away from positive charges and decreases in strength as it gets farther away from the charge.

If you took introductory physics, you learned about the “fundamental forces.” It goes something like this: All interactions are the result of one or more of five basic forces: strong nuclear, weak ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I ...

In 1832, Charles Darwin witnessed hundreds of ballooning spiders landing on the HMS Beagle while some 60 miles offshore. Ballooning is a phenomenon that's been known since at least the days of ...

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Honeybees have a very good sense of smell. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 While Ellard Hunting and fellow researchers were out studying the weather at a field station in ...