This week, we’re helping a Las Vegas elementary school class design and build with magnetic tiles, and a Santa Fe high school teacher restock her lab supplies. We hope that readers who support quality ...

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Most magnets have two poles: north and south, or positive and negative, in a familiar arrangement called a "dipole." But ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why magnetic reconnection seems to occur at nearly the same speed in vastly different regions of space.

A stream of charged particles known as the solar wind flows from the sun toward Earth. Here, it meets Earth's magnetic fields, which shield our planet like a giant umbrella. The Space Umbrella project ...

For decades, magnetic data storage has depended on the general idea of using a ...

In response to an informal request from the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council convened the Committee on Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science in mid-2003. The committee ...

The development of new technologies drives scientific discoveries, the development of new materials and their applications and is thereby essential to the U.S. leadership in the global competitive ...

China has set a new benchmark in extreme magnet science after researchers built the strongest all-superconducting user magnet ever. On Tuesday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that a new ...