A 17-year-old Canadian high school student has turned a fascination with magnetic liquid into an award winning solution for marine plastic pollution. Moroti Adegboyega, a Grade 12 student from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, invented Ecoferroquatics – an autonomous aquatic…
This panel captures the pivotal year of 1820, when the long-separated forces of electricity and magnetism were finally proven to be two sides of the same coin. The panel is split into two major breakthroughs! Left: 1820, Copenhagen – Oersted’s…
Discover how two centuries of bold experimentation and brilliant insight transformed electricity and magnetism from mysterious natural forces into a precise, measurable science! This panel illustrates the crucial period between the 16th and 18th centuries when scientists began to move…
How did electricity and magnetism evolved from ancient observations into unified scientific theory? Early Observations Ancient cultures like the Greeks observed static electricity by rubbing amber, and noticed the natural magnetic properties of lodestones/magnetite! The Dawn of Electrostatics (left panel)…