Nearly two centuries after Michael Faraday first showed that magnetism can twist light, physicists have uncovered a hidden magnetic ingredient inside this classic effect. The new work reveals that the ...

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.

Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have for the first time been able to prove a long-predicted but as yet unconfirmed fundamental effect. In Faraday chiral ...

Michael Faraday in his laboratory at the Royal Institution, in the 1800s. From a series of watercolors of the great experimental scientist by Harriet Moore. September 22, 1791. Today is the ...

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 ...

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