From galaxies to the Sun, new research explains how turbulent motion can produce large-scale magnetic fields that remain ...
In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two years later, he founded what ...
Like poles will repel, unlike poles attract. And, if you break a magnet in two, you have two magnets instead of isolated North and South “monopoles.” It was once thought that charged objects ...
Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is focused on understanding the fundamental ...
Most magnets are predictable. Cool them down, and their tiny magnetic moments snap into ...