At the smallest scales of matter, nature behaves in ways that feel almost counterintuitive. Individual particles follow simple rules, but when they interact together, entirely new behaviors can ...

The 35.6-tesla magnet dwarfs hospital MRI machines and opens new frontiers in materials science and life sciences research.

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Tiny highly uniform magnetic fields are known to pervade the universe, influencing various cosmological processes. To date, however, the physical mechanisms underpinning the generation of these fields ...

The entry of quantum computers into society is currently hindered by their sensitivity to disturbances in the environment. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and Aalto ...

It is not known when humans first noticed the attraction or repulsion between pieces of magnetic material. The first important device depending on these forces was the magnetic compass, which is ...

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Scientists have demonstrated that light alone can reversibly control magnetism in a topological material. Researchers at the ...

Dive deep into Python Physics Lesson 33 and uncover how magnetism affects moving charges! This tutorial explains magnetic forces, the Lorentz force, and the interaction of charged particles with ...

Theoretical physicist Ziqiang Wang and researcher Kun Jiang, Ph.D. '18, help an international team of colleagues explain new findngs in the kagome magnet Boston College researcher Kun Jiang and ...

NOAA scientists have spent decades tracking how magnetic north wanders, but recent modeling shows a pole moving in ways earlier maps did not suggest. Instead of drifting slowly around the Canadian ...