This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to ...

In recent research by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), a groundbreaking discovery was made ...

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate ...

The solar corona, an ethereal halo of plasma that’s a million degrees hotter than the Sun’s surface, is home to magnetic flux ...

Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a ...

In an idealized configuration with no pre-seeded magnetic fields present, this procedure will not generate strong magnetic fields. However, the researchers found that if they introduced a ...

Researchers in France have developed a new model of Earth’s magnetic field that includes a simple explanation for why it has flipped direction many times throughout Earth history. Most geophysicists ...

The field measured out to 1,200 teslas, a unit of magnetic measurement. While Russian scientists were able to create a magnetic field of an astonishing 2,800 teslas, their equipment blew up with ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself dramatically when placed in a magnetic field. Unlike a regular fridge ...

Scientists in China have set a new world record for the strongest steady magnetic field ever generated on Earth. The hybrid magnet managed to produce a field measuring 45.22 Tesla (T), which is ...