If you took introductory physics, you learned about the “fundamental forces.” It goes something like this: All interactions ...

Magnetic materials have become indispensable to various technologies that support our modern society, such as data storage ...

A severe geomagnetic storm may impact most of the northern continental ... Geomagnetic storms are a “major disturbance” of ...

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in ...

This interaction causes the magnetic field to distort and ... in March 1989. The storm caused the Hydro-Quebec electrical grid to collapse. During the storm, the high magnetically induced currents ...

When an electric current passes through a metal wire, a magnetic field forms around that wire (see diagram at right). Likewise, a wire passing through a magnetic field creates an electric current ...

"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA ...

Advanced materials with finely tuned electric and magnetic properties are the goal of all materials scientists. More energy efficient electronic devices, better performing hybrid electric vehicles ...