Stephen Rand, a researcher and proffessor at the University of Michigan may have just casually overthrown 100 years of physics with his team’s new approach to harnessing solar energy. The key to the breakthrough is the magnetic properties of light, which scientists thought negligible for years. But the researchers found that when light passes through a material that does not conduct electricity —
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