A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins. Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star with the strongest magnetic fields in the ...

Scientists have long used Gaussian beams to study how light interacts with matter. These beams resemble plane waves and rely ...

Conventional hard disks are based on ferromagnets—materials in which the magnetic dipoles, or spins, associated with each atom all point in the same direction. This alignment gives the material ...

The magnetic response of a materials is largely determined by the magnetic dipole moment associated with the intrinsic angular momentum, or spin, of its electrons. A material’s response to an ...

By subjecting a compound through a series of carbon nanotubes, scientists can compress it to the point of breaking down and ...

During solar minimum, the sun's magnetic field is close to a dipole, with one north pole and one south pole, similar to Earth's magnetic field. But as we shift toward solar maximum, "the sun's ...

These magnetars have magnetic dipoles that are ten to one hundred times weaker than those of classical magnetars. This study therefore demonstrates that these magnetars are probably formed in neutron ...

An international research project has used nanotube compression to transform the underlying chemistry and physics of a ...