Most magnets have two poles: north and south, or positive and negative, in a familiar arrangement called a "dipole." But ...

(imagedb.com/Shutterstock.com) Unlike what a certain donut company suggests, the world actually runs on magnetism. It's ...

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

Magnetic properties in molecular materials depend not only on the molecular components themselves but also on their solid-state organization. In charged π-electronic systems, electrostatic and ...

Electricity, Magnetism, and Light Become OneIn the 19th century, while thermodynamics was chasing the steam engine, another ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers have found a way to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden ...

THERE are few places on Earth where conditions get as extreme as they do at the National Ignition Facility near Los Angeles. At its heart, 192 lasers are trained on a gold cylinder roughly the size of ...

A fundamental property of magnetism has been disclosed through new research. The discovery may be key to development of a new generation of powerful computers. Our electronics can no longer shrink and ...

Magnetism in molecular materials is not written into the molecules alone. It emerges from how those molecules sit next to one ...