Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mary O'Grady, Jillian Melchior and Dan Henninger. Image: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images The public’s trust in scientists ...

In 1845, Michael Faraday showed that light and magnetism are linked. He passed a beam through glass inside a magnetic field and found that its polarization — the direction its waves wiggle — rotated.

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

LONDON, (WHTM) — One of the greatest scientific minds in history was largely self-educated. Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was born to a poor family, and received only a few years of formal school ...

Nineteenth-century English scientist Faraday, who made the revolutionary discovery that electricity, magnetism and light are all related, personified the self-made man. Son of a blacksmith, Faraday ...

Although new electric motor types are still being invented, the basic principle of an electric motor has changed little in the past century-and-a-half: a stator and a rotor built of magnetic materials ...