Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, ...

New method detects magnetic signals in metal that make it possible to predict fractures before they occur and prevent critical failures.

Research is actively underway to develop a "dream memory" that can reduce heat generation in smartphones and laptops while ...

Physicists at the University of Warsaw have generated a miniature “laser tornado” inside nanoscale structures by engineering ...

In the beginning, there was no magnetism. Immediately after the Big Bang, the universe contained an awesomely hot cloud of electrically charged protons, electrons, helium and lithium nuclei. Each ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich have discovered a new type of magnetism. Experiments show that an artificially produced material becomes magnetic through a mechanism that hasn’t been seen before. The most ...

The search is on to discover new states of matter, and possibly new ways of encoding, manipulating, and transporting information. One goal is to harness materials' quantum properties for ...

Scientists detect the fastest brown dwarf, 2M2228, using radio waves, revealing new insights into magnetism and space weather ...

In this new analysis, researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK conclude that these signatures could be evidence of ...

Individual atoms with an odd number of electrons have a magnetic moment from the spin of the unpaired electron. Materials consisting of elements with an even number of electrons—such as carbon, ...