Atoms, as we know them, are composed of protons and electrons, which are held together with a bonding force known as electromagnetism. Electromagnetism occurs because protons have a positive charge ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow , School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University It’s hard to imagine life without mobile phones, radio and television. Yet the discovery of the electromagnetic ...

More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" (1865). What would our lives be without this ...

A.R.E. Taylor does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...