Nearly two centuries after Michael Faraday first showed that magnetism can twist light, physicists have uncovered a hidden ...

Nearly two centuries after Michael Faraday first showed that magnetism can twist light, physicists have gone back to that classic experiment and found a hidden piece of the puzzle. By teasing out a ...

In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...

New research reveals light's magnetic field directly influences matter, causing scientists to rethink the 'Faraday Effect.' ...

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Moyer, Albert. Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, pp. 178-79. Rothenberg, Marc, ed. The Papers of ...

The sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colors indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points toward and away from the observer, ...