Acting as stellar archaeologists, scientists have found fossilized magnetism on long-dead white dwarf stars, which may help ...

Researchers have found that magnetic fields buried deep inside stars can survive their entire lifetimes and later reappear on ...

From quantum spins in exotic 2D materials to the magnets in your kitchen appliances, magnetism is everywhere — quietly powering, protecting, and connecting our lives. Scientists are now mapping its ...

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed that hematite, the most abundant iron ore on the planet and a staple of ...

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our planet is doomed. In a few billion years, the sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel and swell into a red giant—a star so big it will ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden ...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are advancing next-generation electronics by unlocking the behavior of ...

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 ...

Individual atoms with an odd number of electrons have a magnetic moment from the spin of the unpaired electron. Materials consisting of elements with an even number of electrons—such as carbon, ...