Editor's Note: The last electroscope I used employed gold leaves or pith balls to indicate charge, but here's an electronic version with no moving parts. Though one of our reviewers felt the design ...

Electromagnetic fields are everywhere, all around us. Some are generated naturally, but in vast majority of cases, it’s we humans that are generating them with artificial, electronic means. Everything ...

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