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

Astrophysics faces a paradox: several independent measurements of the speed at which the cosmos is growing do not agree. This ...

Scientists in the US have uncovered that hematite features a rare and emerging form ...

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

Also known as magnetoelectronics, spintronics rely on electron spin rather than electron charge, as found in traditional ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All the magnets you have ever interacted with, such as the tchotchkes stuck to your refrigerator door, are magnetic for the same reason.

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 ...

For the first time, new theoretical models, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, connect the magnetism at the surface of long-dead stellar remnants (white dwarfs) with recent evidence of magnetism ...

Breakthrough findings offer new insight into spintronics to enable faster, smaller and more efficient devices.

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

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, ...