Nanotechnology researchers at the University of Sydney now have a building that will make them the envy of the scientific community—with ultra-clean rooms, vibration-free floors and faraday cages ...

IN my discourse on “Tyndall's Experiments on Magne-crystallic Action”, delivered at the Royal Institution on Friday, Jan. 21, 1927, and published as a supplement to NATURE of May 7 of that year, I ...

Light has always been described as an elegant partnership of electric and magnetic fields, yet for nearly two centuries physicists treated the magnetic side as a quiet background player. New ...

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 ...

Historian David Bodanis subtitled his best seller E = mc2 "A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation." Like most biographies, it includes stories of its subject's ancestors—in this case, ...

__1791: __Michael Faraday is born. In his 76 years on the planet, the chemist-physicist will make fundamental contributions to our understanding of electricity and magnetism, advise governments and ...

An odd quirk of iron led, eventually, to the first self-healing materials. An iron bar, dipped in strong acid, was just fine. Dipped in weak acid, it was eaten away to nothing. Here’s why a diluted ...