A new study is shedding light on why solar radiation is more effective than other forms of energy at causing water to evaporate. The key factor turns out to be the oscillating electric field inherent ...

Sunlight’s electric field boosts water evaporation by breaking up molecule clusters at the surface. Hydrogels help form more ...

Conventional accelerators use oscillating electric fields to drive charged particles to relativistic speeds. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, for example, uses radio-frequency oscillations to ...

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing a technique that uses an oscillating electric field to separate nanoparticles from blood plasma.

A new technology that uses an oscillating electric field to easily and quickly isolate drug-delivery nanoparticles from blood has been developed by a team of engineers. The technology could serve ...

Because an oscillating magnetic field generates an oscillating electric field, and vice versa, the two fields sustain each other as the wave propagates. Radio waves and light waves, however, tend ...

In fact, you can't have light without an oscillating electric and magnetic field. These oscillating fields are what allow light to be a wave without a medium to wave in.

An oscillating electric field (purple arcs) separates drug-delivery nanoparticles (yellow spheres) from blood (red spheres) and pulls them towards rings surrounding the chip's electrodes.

Scientists have long known that sunlight is incredibly good at making water evaporate. In fact, it’s more effective than other heat sources, like your kitchen stove. But why is sunlight so efficient?