The research team has identified atacamite as a material with magnetocaloric properties. Natural crystals have long ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth.

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

Two German physicists have unveiled a compact magnet layout that outperforms the famed Halbach array, delivering stronger, ...

External magnetic fields have been used to vertically align ensembles of silicon microwires coated with ferromagnetic nickel films. X-ray diffraction and image analysis techniques were used to ...

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

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

A method is presented for controlling the field-directed self-assembly of colloidal magnetic core–shell nanoparticles into three-dimensional (3D) crystalline superstructures with nanoscale feature ...

A research team led by Prof. Sheng Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Abstract: The implementation of traditional surgical procedures heavily relies ... to develop a positioning system capable of providing precise coordinates of surgical instruments even when the view ...

Abstract: Polymeric foams with embedded magnetic particles is a new class of lightweight systems that could lead to relevant industrial applications both for their enhanced directional passive ...

Magnetic fields are produced by electrical currents that are generated by various astrophysical objects. The study of magnetic fields seeks to understand their origin, as well as the acceleration ...