Physics students at the University of California watched with amazement the antics of a gas flame in a glass tube on Dr. E. E. Hall’s lecture desk. Near the tube was a radio transmitter. No one ...

The American physicist Richard Feynman is often quoted as saying: ‘You can recognise truth by its beauty and simplicity.’ The phrase appears in the work of the American science writer K C Cole – in ...

Have you ever slowly revved up the engine on your car (when it's in neutral) until the whole vehicle begins to shake a little? Press the peddle a little more and the car stops shaking. Ease off the ...