New research conducted by UW’s aeronautics and astronautics department has uncovered how scientists extract electricity from ...

In 1831, visionary scientist Michael Faraday made a pivotal discovery: the relationship between changing magnetism and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wild idea has been proposed to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation with the help of magnetic fields. A new research ...

Electron holography exploits the wave nature of electrons in a transmission electron microscope to record the phase shift induced by electrostatic and magnetic potentials within a specimen. By ...

Over on his YouTube channel [Ryan Inis] has a video about how electrostatic motors are breaking all the rules. He explains that these days most motors are electromagnetic but suggests that may be ...

Over the millennia, the phenomenon known as electricity has meant different things to different people. In ancient societies, electricity—or more specifically lightning—was inspiration for some of the ...

What if the very principles that have powered industry for over a century were suddenly turned on their head? For decades, electromagnetic motors—reliant on copper windings and rare earth magnets—have ...

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