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October 17, 2013The Sciences
Tying Light in Knots [Slide Show]: Newfound solutions to Maxwell’s electromagnetism equations show light can get as tangled as a sailor’s rope

October 17, 2013The Sciences
Tying Light in Knots [Slide Show]: Newfound solutions to Maxwell’s electromagnetism equations show light can get as tangled as a sailor’s rope; Clara Moskowitz

March 1, 1961The Sciences
Gravity: Albert Einstein showed that gravitation can be interpreted as a geometrical property of space-time. His further hope, of relating gravity and electromagnetism, is still unfulfilled; George Gamow; Scientific American Volume 204, Issue 3; 10.1038/scientificamerican0361-94

October 1, 1953The Sciences
Michael Faraday: His great series of discoveries in electromagnetism founded the electrical industry, but his greatest achievement was the field concept. In this he was a bold precursor of Einstein; Herbert Kondo; Scientific American Volume 189, Issue 4; 10.1038/scientificamerican1053-90

March 4, 2011The Sciences
Gravity, by George Gamow [Special Archive Article]: Albert Einstein showed that gravitation can be interpreted as a geometrical property of spacetime. His further hope, of relating gravity and electromagnetism, is still unfulfilled; George Gamow

February 1, 2011Environment
Forces to Reckon with: Does Gravity Muck Up Electromagnetism?: George Musser; February 2011

March 1, 1959The Sciences
The Weak Interactions: They are now recognized as reflecting a fourth force of nature.The other three are gravity, electromagnetism and the "strong"force which holds together the particles of the atomic nucleus...; S. B. Treiman; Scientific American Volume 200, Issue 3; 10.1038/scientificamerican0359-72

December 1, 1957The Sciences
Heinrich Hertz: The last great physicist of the era before the discovery of X-rays, radioactivity and subatomic particles, he is best remembered for his demonstration of the connection between electromagnetism and light...; Emily Morrison and Philip; Scientific American Volume 197, Issue 6; 10.1038/scientificamerican1257-98

September 27, 2013The Sciences
The Holy Grail of Quantum Physics on Your Kitchen Table [Excerpt]: In this excerpt from his new book, Love and Math, University of California, Berkeley, professor Edward Frenkel uses the Russian soup borscht as a metaphor to explain the duality between electric and magnetic forces...; Edward Frenkel

September 1, 2009The Sciences
Light: It emerged not with a quick flip of the switch but with a slow breaking of the dawn; George Musser; September 2009; 10.1038/scientificamerican0909-96a

March 21, 2017Space & Physics
Q&A: Lawrence Krauss on The Greatest Story Ever Told: Hidden, impermanent balances in nature have shaped the history of physics, and could determine our universe’s future; Clara Moskowitz

Tying Light in Knots [Slide Show]
All Tied Up:: By discovering a new set of solutions to the famous Maxwell equations governing electromagnetism, Hridesh Kedia of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have shown that light can be tied up in knots...

September 12, 2011The Sciences
Why There's No Such Thing as North and South: The human mind often confuses familiarity with understanding.You've learned the basics of a field. You've memorized the rules and used them so many times they have become second nature, or "common sense"--which means that you have stopped asking yourself why they should be true...; Davide Castelvecchi

October 6, 2004The Sciences
Nobel in Physics Recognizes Quark Work: Sarah Graham

Was Einstein Wrong?: A Quantum Threat to Special Relativity
1865:: James Clerk Maxwell’s equations reveal that electromagnetic fields have a rich dynamical life of their own, pushing and pulling each other, and crossing empty space at 298,000 km/s...; SPL/Photo Researchers, Inc.

S&P-2020-11-05
To Understand Gravity, Toss a Hard Drive into a Black Hole: We probably think we know gravity pretty well. After all, we have more conscious experience with this fundamental force than with any of the others (electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces)...

January 1, 2016The Sciences
Scientists Pick the Most Beautiful Equations: Mathematicians often see more than cold logic in symbols and numbers. They see the sublime; Clara Moskowitz; Scientific American Volume 314, Issue 1; 10.1038/scientificamerican0116-70; Originally published as "Elegant Equations" in Scientific American Volume 314, Issue 1

October 7, 2008Space & Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics: Japan's Makato Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa share the Nobel Prize with American Yoichiro Nambu for work related to a fundamental description of nature at the subatomic particle level through what is known as broken symmetries...

August 1, 2014Space & Physics
Garrett Lisi Explains His Grand Unified Theory: Deep down, the particles and forces of the universe are a manifestation of exquisite geometry; A. Garrett Lisi and James Owen Weatherall; Special Editions Volume 23, Issue 3s; 10.1038/scientificamericanuniverse0814-96; Originally published as "A Geometric Theory of Everything" in Special Editions Volume 23, Issue 3s

November 25, 1911The Sciences
The Demand for Young Men in Electrical Engineering: Dugald C. Jackson; Scientific American Volume 105, Issue 22; 10.1038/scientificamerican11251911-479

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