Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Is the whole universe just a simulation?

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe ...

Developments in many modern applications are encountering rapid escalation in heat dissipation, coupled with a need to decrease the size of thermal management hardware. These developments have spurred ...

Two-wire transmitter technology came about from an agreement among various instrument suppliers in the 1950s to standardize on 4-20 mA current loops as a means of sending a flow, temperature, pressure ...

Over two days, teams of six students simulate two European Council meetings and a series of meetings at all levels of the Council of the EU on current affairs topics. For example, in 2025 the topics ...