If you think about an asylum, there are two kinds of people in it: staff and patients. We aren’t sure which one [Nick Lucid] is in the latest The Science Asylum video that tries to answer the question ...

For electricity to flow, everything needs to be connected in a big ring. It’s called a circuit. For example, the lights in most houses and flats are part of a circuit controlled by the consumer unit, ...

People use 'electricity' casually in their daily lives, but if you think about it, you don't know how electricity flows. Electronic circuit engineer Lucamtukh explains the question, 'What is ...

The battery as we know it today was an invention of Italian chemist and physicist Alessandro Volta. He witnessed electricity splitting water into its constituent elements of oxygen and hydrogen and ...

Alternating current (ac) or direct current (dc) circuits are capable of carrying very different currents, as illustrated by the ratings on the switch in Figure 1. This is why it’s so important for ...

Time to retire the old soldering iron? In the “atomtronic” circuits pictured on the right, it is atoms, not electrons, that flow. Such circuits could form the basis for ultra-sensitive gyroscopes.

Your 14-year-old kids have probably spent as much of their summer holidays on their phones or computers as they have at the beach or moaning about how bored they are. Yet when they learn about ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. For electricity to flow, everything needs to be connected in a big ring. It’s called a circuit. For example, the lights ...