We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

A proton’s magnetic moment arises from a fundamental quantum property called spin, which causes the proton to behave as a tiny bar magnet with a north and a south pole.

Bar magnets and horseshoe magnets are examples of permanent magnets. Induced magnets. ... The iron filings in the image become induced magnets when they are near the bar magnet.

(Image: Steidl) The fields around each loop combine and strengthen one another. The coil has a magnetic pole at either end, and the field around the coil is very much like that around a bar magnet.

Cutting a bar magnet in half won't get rid of its poles. It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that will be attracted to the other magnet's south pole, and vice versa. It's this ...

Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our planet is in fact a bit like a bar magnet. It has a north and south ...

Publishing in Nature on 28 May 1, a group of researchers has mastered a technique to measure the magnetic moment of a proton — the microscopic equivalent of the strength of a bar magnet — with ...