Companies are duping people into buying fake Faraday cages they say will block harmful radiation and 5G, but keep home WiFi signal intact. A real Faraday cage, however, would block all electromagnetic ...

We've heard for a while now that hackers are taking advantage of keyless entry systems to steal modern cars in what are known as "relay attacks." And while some folks are using old-school methods like ...

While studying neuropsychology at Wesleyan University, Jordan Engel once covered the inside of a lab in screen doors to protect the lab’s sensitive equipment. “We had to turn the labs into Faraday ...

What's cooking? A microwave oven is a Faraday cage Is the Faraday cage in your lab less effective than you think? A new study by applied mathematicians at the University of Oxford suggests that the ...

Some of the internet’s best moments arrive unannounced in the form of um, duh moments — it’s one of the 21st century’s best-selling brands of humor. This week’s iteration comes in the form of Amazon ...

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 ...

An electric charge (like a proton) creates an electric field in the region around it. This field points away from positive charges and decreases in strength as it gets farther away from the charge.

Thanksgiving is two days from today. Do you dread that people at the table will be talking to texting during the meal? The solution should be easy: tell everyone to turn off cell phones. Will everyone ...

Despite the many tools developed to help us down our phones while driving -- from the simple Bluetooth headset to apps that automatically reply to texts-- it appears we just can't stop fiddling with ...

Switching your phone off for important meetings or trips to the cinema can be a pain in the ass. Victor Johansson has a solution, though: he’s designed the Escape Jacket, which features a Faraday cage ...

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 ...