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

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 ...

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

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

Michael Faraday, despite his initial background as a chemist, made significant contributions to the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Faraday's self-education, beginning with an ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have believed that only the electric side of light played a role in certain magnetic ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

In a move which caught space scientists … by surprise, the House Appropriations Committee last week voted to decimate the budget for the Venus Pioneer programme … [T]he Committee suggested that a ...