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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

__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 ...

I wrapped my router in foil; download dropped ~50% and ping rose ~67%, so the signal was partially blocked. Upload barely changed; upload speed seemed ISP-limited, not much affected by the foil. My ...