Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash The theory could have broad ranging applications ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists on Tuesday for discovering that a bizarre barrier-defying ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

A strong contender is wavelet theory, a mathematical framework that powers image and video compression across the digital ...

The optical properties of metallic nanoparticles with nanometre dimensions exhibit features that cannot be described by classical electrodynamics. In this quantum size regime, the near-field ...

Any help/explanation on how to solve these would be appreciated. I've sadly forgotten most of the physics I learned in college, at least the quantitative stuff.<BR><BR>1. The two conducting rails in ...