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 ...

AT the opening of the period covered by this the fifth volume of Faraday's Diary? Faraday was fifty-five years of age, and signs of that failure of memory which clouded his later years were increasing ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have wondered if Earth’s rotation through its magnetic field could produce electricity. The idea was first tested by Michael Faraday in 1832, but his experiments ...

More than 105 years after his death, the Royal Institution has finally paid tribute to Michael Faraday. Earlier this week the Queen, the Royal Institution’s patron, opened a museum, an archive room ...

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 ...

Scientists have made energy from thin air—well, with 60 percent relative humidity, that is. Water generates friction that can be harnessed in order to generate electricity. These scientists were ...

Physicists in the United States, Austria and Brazil have shown that shaking ultracold Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) can cause them to either divide into uniform segments or shatter into ...

NOVA explores the stories behind E = mc 2 and relates how Einstein came to his startling conclusion that mass and energy are two forms of the same thing. The program: conveys the discoveries that ...