The third type of magnetism could prove the most useful of all—if researchers can identify the materials that exhibit it.

The largest magnetic map of the universe ever produced—five times larger than all previous efforts combined—marks the ...

An international research team has produced the largest magnetic map of the universe ever created, revealing an invisible ...

For nearly a century, there were two known kinds of magnets. Ferromagnets are the classic magnets that attract metal and keep ...

Magnetism is a force of nature produced by moving electric charges. Sometimes these motions are microscopic and inside of a material known as magnets. Magnets, or the magnetic fields created by moving ...

Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of Earth’s magnetic field. Relying on a hidden ...

For the first time, an international team of researchers has experimentally observed magnetic hopfions.

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 ...