One of the most important qualities of a strong magnet is its ability to keep its magnetization aligned in a preferred ...

If Ed Scruggs, of Austin, Texas, hadn’t seen it for himself, he might never have believed it. But there it was on his 11-year-old daughter’s X-ray: a string of tiny, super-strong spherical magnets in ...

If you want a strong magnet, the obvious answer is to buy one. However, for a variety of reasons, you might want to combine several smaller magnets. There are a few ways to do this, but the Halbach ...

Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet. Phonons are collective ...

These thin, versatile magnets are great for everyday use as well as for making crafts. If you need a good all-purpose magnet and you’re not sure where to start your search, these neodymium disc ...

Join Leigh and his brother Ryan as they go magnet fishing in Amsterdam with an exceptionally strong magnet. Watch as Ryan ...

Imagine this, if you can: two stars spiral toward each other until they merge into one unified star. This star lives on for a while, but eventually explodes in a colossal supernova that transforms it ...

How do some neutron stars become the strongest magnets in the Universe? A German-British team of astrophysicists has found a possible answer to the question of how these so-called magnetars form. The ...