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By creating a 'little bit of the Universe in a bottle' in her lab, a PhD student in physics has reverse-engineered the ...

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Learn about Michael Faraday’s discoveries, scholarly significance, and influence on contemporary physics to see why he is regarded as the father of electromagnetism.

Developing the lithium-ion battery took decades of research. A new multi-institutional project led by the Department of ...