On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

Learn how starquakes, subtle vibrations inside stars, revealed hidden magnetic fields in red giants and how this stellar ...

For the first time, new theoretical models, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, connect the magnetism at the surface of ...

The ISTA team’s theoretical models connect, for the first time, the magnetism at the surface of long-dead stellar remnants, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All the magnets you have ever interacted with, such as the tchotchkes stuck to your refrigerator door, are magnetic for the same reason.

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are advancing next-generation electronics by unlocking the behavior of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden ...

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, ...

Strange things happen when you stack and twist graphene. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Scientists discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite -- the most abundant magnetic mineral on Earth -- declines drastically when put under pressure. Researchers have found that when magnetite ...