Join us as we unravel the mystery of an ordinary magnet. Learn the science behind how magnets work and why they stick ...

Magnetism is the force exerted by magnets—objects that repel or attract each other. This powerful physical phenomenon is one component of electromagnetism, one of the fundamental forces of nature.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Magnetism is a force we can’t see. Something is magnetic if it can pull another magnetic object towards it.

But these applications must account for the inherent instability that arises when magnets repel each other. More recently, scientists have found that if one of the magnets is spun at high speed ...

Usually, they will either attract or repel each other. But if you spin one of the magnets, it turns out, you can achieve this hovering. And that is the strange part. The force affecting the ...

Anyone who has ever played with magnets notices that can either attract or repel each other, depending on how they're held (and here's a note for parents and teachers: everyone should play with ...

The students use models and micro:bit sensors to investigate magnetic fields created by simple magnets ... evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the ...

"Most people are familiar with ferromagnets (permanent magnets) like iron, where the spins are all aligned with each other ... direction to the field, repelling it." Bismuth is an example of ...

In July engineers demonstrated that beams of light can be made to repel each other, much like repulsive electric charges. The discovery could help control data transfer through the Internet and enable ...

We have this same problem with electric and magnetic fields ... I gave them both a negative charge, which means they’ll repel each other. Check it out: See? Because of the repulsion force ...