The Rio 2016 Olympics will kick off tomorrow and over the next three weeks, while you enjoy watching the world’s top athletes compete in the huge variety of sports, spare a thought for the physics ...

Say you wanted to protect your Wi-Fi network from surrounding buildings. The most obvious way to do this would be to secure the devices on your network using the wireless security protocol of choice.

A radio is able to receive signals and make sound when outside a Faraday cage. The cage blocks the signals when placed over the radio, silencing it. The cage gaps are on the order of centimetres, but ...

Shielding is crucial for all manner of electronic devices. Whether you want to keep power supply noise out of an audio amplifier, or protect ICBMs against an electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear ...

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 ...