Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

Thin layers of two non-magnetic metals – copper and manganese – become magnets when they are in contact with buckminsterfullerene molecules. This discovery has been made by physicists in the UK, US ...

Researchers have observed three-dimensional magnetic vortex rings in a real-world magnetic material for the first time. Contrary to theoretical predictions, these rings – which are spin configurations ...

Physicists and chemist have made atoms of gold, silver and copper, known as non-magnetic metals, magnetic. The magnetism appears at the nanometric scale when the material is surrounded with ...

[Seth Robinson] was inspired by the way eddy currents cause a cylindrical neodymium magnet to levitate inside a rotating copper tube, so he cast a spherical copper cage to levitate a magnetic sphere.

This powerful magnet is expected to open the door for visiting scientists from around the world in 2018. As with all magnets at the MagLab, researchers can apply to use it to advance knowledge in ...

Once cooling was complete, the ring had to be powered with 5300 amps of current to produce the magnetic field. This was another slow process, with technicians easing the ring up by less than 2 amps ...

The ring produces an incredibly uniform magnetic field, which will allow physicists like Polly to see the particles’ weird gyrations and possibly new physics.

The ring launcher is a device that uses a changing magnetic field to launch a conducting ring into the air. Perhaps it isn't so simple of a demo.

Scientists in China have developed the world’s strongest resistive magnet, which produced a steady magnetic field of 42 Tesla (T). The system could improve devices that use magnets, as well as ...