It was a journey to the center of the Earth, if only for the briefest of moments. But rather than tunneling thousands of ...

A research team from NIMS, Tohoku University and AIST has developed a new technique for controlling the nanostructures and magnetic domain structures of iron-based soft amorphous ribbons, achieving ...

When thoughts turn to the modernization and decarbonization of our transportation infrastructure, one imagines it to be dominated by exotic materials. EV motors and wind turbine generators need ...

When three becomes five. Eder Lomeli, Edward Mu, and Hari Ramachandran (front row, from left) led an international team in getting an iron-based material to give up and take back five electrons, ...

Iron is more dense and hence, when the young Earth was molten, it tended to sink. Lighter elements, such as silicon and aluminium, floated to the surface and, as Earth cooled, the crust contained ...