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

Scientists have discovered that light’s long-ignored magnetic field may directly drive the Faraday effect.

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 ...

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 ...