A new geological study sets the record straight on the formation of the Andes mountain range. Research published in Earth and ...

Researchers have found that magnetic fields buried deep inside stars can survive their entire lifetimes and later reappear on ...

From quantum spins in exotic 2D materials to the magnets in your kitchen appliances, magnetism is everywhere — quietly powering, protecting, and connecting our lives. Scientists are now mapping its ...

In the beginning, there was no magnetism. Immediately after the Big Bang, the universe contained an awesomely hot cloud of electrically charged protons, electrons, helium and lithium nuclei. Each ...

I have a confession: I'm obsessed with magnets. We rely on magnets every day, but seldom give them a second thought. There are magnets in your credit card, your cellphone, your car, microwave oven and ...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are advancing next-generation electronics by unlocking the behavior of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden ...

Also known as magnetoelectronics, spintronics rely on electron spin rather than electron charge, as found in traditional ...

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our planet is doomed. In a few billion years, the sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel and swell into a red giant—a star so big it will ...

Individual atoms with an odd number of electrons have a magnetic moment from the spin of the unpaired electron. Materials consisting of elements with an even number of electrons—such as carbon, ...

Scientists in the US have uncovered that hematite features a rare and emerging form ...