Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

When an electric current passes through some materials, it generates a voltage perpendicular to the direction in which the ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Controlling magnetism in a device is not easy; unusually large magnetic fields or lots of electricity are needed, which are bulky, slow, expensive and/or waste energy. But that looks soon to ...

Designing a small-scale flying robot posed significant challenges. Traditional flying robots rely on onboard power sources ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

A tiny soft robot powered by magnets may soon crawl through rubble or the body, blending flexible electronics with smooth motion.

Physicists have discovered that electronic excitations in 2D magnets can interact through spin waves – ripples in a ...

It weighs in at just 21 milligrams and has a wingspan of only 9.4 millimeters. The device flies when exposed to an external ...

As the bot's two magnets are simultaneously attracted to ... Uniformly increasing or decreasing the strength of the magnetic field moves the robot up or down by causing it to spin faster or ...