Driving an electric current through a molecule can create a magnetic field. Yet in practice, such fields are often too weak ...

Advanced magnetic memory and spintronic devices rely on the ability to control magnetic states using electricity. Today, such ...

Researchers show that Cartan's First Structure Equation links crystal defects to the same mathematical rules governing electric currents and magnetic fields. (Nanowerk News) A fundamental goal of ...

Discover how magnetic levitation technology powers high-speed maglev trains, enabling frictionless travel and impressive ...

There is an invisible force protecting us, keeping our atmosphere in place. Without it, life on Earth would be over very ...

Modern electronics are a far cry from what Michael Faraday, the pioneer of electrical gadgetry, can ever have imagined possible. But he’d surely be pleased, if only because the magnet, the component ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 28, 2025, 07:59am EST Map of the strength of the Earth's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...

As black holes feed, they pull material into a disk around them. The material orbiting in this disk gets heated to extreme temperatures, and so it becomes a plasma — a state of matter in which some of ...