A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better ...

Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that can penetrate spacecraft shielding and destroy important systems.

Supernova debris speeds up neutron stars, strengthening magnetic fields. This explains why low-intensity magnetars still produce bursts.

Multiferroic materials, in which electric and magnetic properties are combined in promising ways, will be the heart of new ...

Multiferroic materials, in which electric and magnetic properties are combined in promising ways, will be the heart of new ...

The magnetosomes are aligned in a chain-like fashion, which impart a magnetic dipole to the bacterial cell and allows the cells to "sense" Earth's geomagnetic field (Gorby et al. 1988).

It was widely believed that they only occurred near Earth's dipole magnetic field regions. The team, which consists researchers from China, the United States and Sweden, has analyzed vast amounts ...

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 ...