This video explores the nature of magnets and how they create invisible magnetic forces. It explains the origin of magnetism, ...

A magical particle acceleration 'spectacle' is unfolding around distant Jupiter. This is not a scene from a science fiction movie, but a wondrous phenomenon occurring in Jupiter's magnetosphere. Today ...

Space weather isn’t referring to rain clouds that float through the galaxy. Instead, it’s caused by massive explosions of ...

Japanese researchers have revealed how weak magnetic fields can instantly control the direction of electrical flow in quantum metals. Quantum metals are materials in which quantum effects, usually ...

A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole in 2019—located at ...

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.

This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A team of scientists led by University of Maryland physics professor James Drake appear to have solved a key remaining mystery about how the interaction of magnetic fields produce ...

Cutting a bar magnet in half won't get rid of its poles. It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that will be attracted to the other magnet's south pole, and vice versa. It's this ...

Superconductivity is a phenomenon where certain materials can conduct electricity with zero resistance. Obviously, this has ...