Many people have been wondering what a Faraday cage is and why they are important for emergency preparedness. A Faraday cage is a sealed enclosure that conducts electricity to the outer layer. Some ...

When discussing static electricity and lightning in my physics classes, it is not uncommon for a student to assert the common misunderstanding that people are safe from lightning in a car because cars ...

Tom Colella gets bonus points for ingenuity, at least. Colella, an electrician from Australia, wanted to get away from work and hit the links. Just one problem: The GPS-equipped, company-mandated ...

Electronics in the Life Sciences. By Stephen Young — When I visited Stephen Young in his laboratory in Edinburgh a few years ago, I was first struck by the size of his Faraday cage, and then, on ...