External magnetic fields have been used to vertically align ensembles of silicon microwires coated with ferromagnetic nickel films. X-ray diffraction and image analysis techniques were used to ...

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and ...

Two German physicists have unveiled a compact magnet layout that outperforms the famed Halbach array, delivering stronger, ...

"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek.

Geologic records reveal that magnetic field strength and oxygen levels rise and fall together, implying deep-Earth processes ...

A giant crop circle has suddenly appeared in a field near Bush Barrow, just a few hundred yards from Stonehenge, with the ...

Sharks can navigate via Earth's magnetic field, study confirms for the first time. Scientists have long suspected the fish can travel by sensing the magnetic field, but no one knew how—until now.

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

Last year, a geomagnetic storm dubbed the Gannon superstorm was one of the strongest of its kind in decades, buffeting the ...

A method is presented for controlling the field-directed self-assembly of colloidal magnetic core–shell nanoparticles into three-dimensional (3D) crystalline superstructures with nanoscale feature ...