In a tokamak—a donut-shaped device that uses magnetic fields to confine plasma—sudden disruptions can occur. During these events, electrons can accelerate to near the speed of light, creating a ...

All celestial bodies—planets, suns, even entire galaxies—produce magnetic fields, affecting such cosmic processes as the ...

By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...

Earth’s magnetic north pole has continued its long-term drift toward Siberia, officially crossing into the Russian hemisphere ...

In a paper published January 21 in Nature, a team led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have run complex numerical simulations of plasma flows that, while leading to turbulence, ...

A Czech and Spanish-led research team has demonstrated the ability to distinguish subtle differences between magnetic ground ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...

Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. expert called Tuesday for the United States to flag China's installation of maritime structures in and around a jointly managed zone between South Korea and China ...

The magnetic fossil left behind by a mysterious ancient organism.Dr C.M. Martin-Jones New research from Cambridge and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has decoded the mystery of magnetic fossils left by ...