THE first edition of Prof. Livens' “Theory of Electricity,” published in 1918, was reviewed in NATURE in 1919 (vol. 103, p. 142), and therefore the present notice need only take account of the changes ...

QUANTUM theory originated in the work of Prof. Max Planck of Berlin in the year 1900. It is significant that the new theory arose out of a discrepancy between theory and experiment in a somewhat ...

The concept of the electric field being null inside of a closed conducting surface was first illustrated by Michael Faraday in 19th century who also considered as a physicist who endorsed the field ...

Scotland finds itself at the heart of a spirited online debate after a Reddit user questioned the value of the country's wind energy output. They wrote, "How is it cheaper to produce the stuff here, ...

The CSIS Energy and National Security Program is pleased to invite you to a panel discussion on time-variant electricity pricing as part of our ongoing series, “Electricity in Transition.” For a ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have confirmed the existence of a massless particle, long theorized ...