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 ...

It is not known when humans first noticed the attraction or repulsion between pieces of magnetic material. The first important device depending on these forces was the magnetic compass, which is ...

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The giant magnet prior to the unveiling ceremony at General Atomics. (Photo by JW August/Times of San Diego) Sitting inside a building in a Poway industrial park is the result of nearly 20 years of ...

A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin material. When cooled, the material forms tiny magnetic vortices before ...

Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his Hach Hall lab. Iowa State University/Christopher Gannon. Iowa State's Aaron Rossini has ...

The device, part of the CRAFT artificial sun reactor, sets new international benchmark in push for clean energy.

Researchers have uncovered a new way to generate exotic oscillation states in tiny magnetic structures—using only minimal energy. By exciting magnetic waves, they triggered a delicate motion that ...

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 ...