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 ...

Eventually, the blob of molten material beneath Canada split in two and the stronger one slowly shifted toward the blob ...

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

The rapid movement of Earth’s magnetic north pole has puzzled scientists in recent years, as it has shifted from its usual ...

For the first time in history, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown through a region of the Sun where explosive magnetic ...

As cosmic strings — exotic wrinkles in space-time left over from the earliest moments of the Big Bang — travel, they may trigger the formation of magnetic fields in their wakes, new research ...

More information: Yichi Zhang et al, Magnetic-field tuning of the Casimir force, Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02521-0 Journal information: Nature Physics ...

Magnetic tweezers are a versatile single-molecule manipulation technique that uses magnetic fields to apply forces and torques on magnetic particles attached to biological molecules, such as DNA, RNA, ...

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The Department of the Air Force successfully tested real-time magnetic navigation (MagNav) on a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft for the first time. MagNav uses a neural network and machine learning ...