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

Explore the fascinating world of clean energy with this step-by-step DIY magnetic generator build. Learn how everyday items ...

This is a series of interactive lecture demonstrations with a theme of induction and Faraday's law, typically presented with a series of iClicker questions. Students predict the direction of current ...

Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much ...

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Brain scans show how birds turn head movements into GPS signals using specialized ear cells. In A Nutshell Using whole-brain ...

Michael Faraday, a British scientist who was credited with the discovery of electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator—was born September 22, 1791, in the ...

Narrative accounts misrepresent discovery by reconstructing worlds ordered by success rather than the world as explored. Such worlds rarely contain the personal knowledge that informed actual ...

How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely ...