On the face of it, harnessing wind power to heat your house seems easy. In fact some ... but this experiment shows that a spinning disc of magnets can create heat directly. Optimizing this should ...

Metals are the only substances that are magnetic. But some metals are magnetic and some are not. The most common magnetic metal is iron. You don't see too many objects made of pure iron but you do see ...

This experiment makes it easy to see magnetic fields in action. All you need is some iron oxide, some water, and a jar. When you place an extremely powerful magnet along the outside of the jar ...

Researchers have created flexible, biologically inspired modules that connect magnetically to form reconfigurable, high-speed ...

Researchers have begun to use magnets to entangle qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers. This simple technique ... "The beauty of this experiment is in its simplicity and its use ...

To start things off, what even is a permanent magnet? Like many simple questions about nature ... films of the material were developed. These experiments showed that these films may have two ...

As particle accelerator technology moves into the high-luminosity era, the need for extreme precision and unprecedented ...

The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has precisely measured the W boson's mass, confirming the Standard Model's ...

How the brain works is a question that has intrigued scientists for centuries, raising multiple hypotheses and theories. In ...

The world's most powerful supercomputer is helping resolve conflicting research results that have puzzled scientists for more ...

New research harnessed the highly absorbent dye tartrazine, used as the common food coloring Yellow No. 5, to turn tissues in ...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the Frontier supercomputer to calculate the magnetic properties of ...