But powerful magnets are usually large and energy hungry. Chukun Gao at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and her colleagues sought to build a small ultra-strong magnet that would ...

Skyrmions, in which electron spins inside a magnet are arranged like vortices, are a key structure in next-generation spintronics technology. KAIST researchers have shown that skyrmions can form using ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the case.

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most brilliant supernova explosions ...

It’s the case problem. It’s the case problem. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and ...

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have identified the true source of a magnetic effect seen in the material ruthenium dioxide (RuO₂), helping resolve an active debate in the ...

ROCHESTER — Mayo Clinic has added a magnetic nanoparticle-mediated hyperthermia machine to its cancer treatment lineup in Rochester, becoming the first in the U.S. to install that technology. The ...

SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. — Less than two years after breaking ground, eVAC Magnetics turned a soybean field into a manufacturing facility and has shipped its first rare-earth permanent magnets for ...

We garage-dwellers have racks and racks of tools we are quite proud of. But there are other items hidden around our shops that we often forget are actually tools, or discover a use by accident. For me ...

Levon Pogosian receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The work described in this article was enabled in part by support provided by the BC DRI Group and ...