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 ...

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

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 ...

Join us in Cambridge in September 2026 for this edition of the Faraday Discussion series, unique international discussion meetings that address current and emerging topics at the forefront of the ...

AT the opening of the period covered by this the fifth volume of Faraday's Diary? Faraday was fifty-five years of age, and signs of that failure of memory which clouded his later years were increasing ...