The workings of electricity are often introduced to students by way of a comparison to water, with voltage analogous to pressure, current to flow rate, wires to hoses, and so on. Even in more advanced ...

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking ...

Watching proteins move as they drive the chemical reactions that sustain life is one of the grand challenges of modern ...

Ever feel run off your feet? Spare a thought for sea stars, creatures whose movement involves the coordination of hundreds of ...