Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, ...

Magnetic reconnection, a phenomenon wherein oppositely directed magnetic field lines in plasma can break apart and reconnect, is still very poorly understood. This is despite the fact that it is ...

A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone knows that when you hold a compass in your hand the needle will point north thanks to Earth’s magnetic field, but aside ...

Three years of radiation data collected on the far side of the moon show that Earth’s magnetic field still reaches the lunar ...

Earth's magnetic field, a familiar directional indicator over long distances, is routinely probed in applications ranging from geology to archaeology. Now it has provided the basis for a technique ...

The Standard Model, also known as the Theory of Almost Everything, describes how the fundamental particles of the universe interact. But the model isn’t complete: It fails to account for dark energy ...

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, leaves CERN next Tuesday on the next leg of its journey to the International Space ...

Though predicted to exist, magnetic monopoles — hypothetical elementary particles with only one magnetic pole — have never been detected by scientists. But physicists have just accomplished the next ...

Lab top accretion disc: Cutaway diagram of the experimental setup used by Wang and colleagues. The data shown in the left portion of the gap between cylinders illustrates the simulated shear profile ...