Magnetic colloid dipole orbit representation (left) resembles a Pac-Man shape (right). Credit: Biswal lab/Rice University ...

Physicists have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice -- by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south ...

After six years of collecting data, the muon g-2 experiment released its results and could chart a new path for particle physics.

ETH Zurich scientists have developed cube-shaped magnetic building blocks that can be assembled into two-dimensional shapes and controlled by an external magnetic field. They can be used for soft ...

Simply put, a dipole is an object with two opposing poles. Thus, a magnetic dipole - such as a bar magnet ... of the protons align in the same direction as the magnetic field.

Magnetic levitation profoundly changes the properties of plasma created with nearly equivalent heating power and neutral gas fuelling. Figure 2 compares two discharges, levitated and supported. A ...

But the way minerals are aligned in ancient rock shows that the planet’s magnetic dipole occasionally disappears altogether, leaving a much more complicated field with many poles all over the ...

Every so often, Earth's magnetic field flips on its head, turning the magnetic North Pole into the South Pole and vice versa. It last happened 780,000 years ago, and is predicted to occur again in ...