A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

A secret Minoan fire technique may explain how Bronze Age artisans in Crete changed serpentinite vases from blue to red.

In most conventional semiconductors, thermal conductivity decreases as temperature rises because heat-carrying lattice vibrations—called phonons—scatter more frequently.

A newly mapped form of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride emerges only under extremely strong magnetic fields, defying long-held expectations about how superconductors behave.

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or ...

HiFiMAN has experimented with wireless concepts before, but the Arya WiFi and HE1000 WiFi represent its most serious attempt yet to bring high bandwidth wireless audio to planar magnetic headphones.

Engineers have discovered an unexpected link between two very different realms of physics: the behavior of electrons in ...

Each week on “Watch Mr. Wizard,” Don Herbert used household objects to conduct an easily replicated experiment that ...

In a development that could transform how scientists study cancer, neurodegeneration and inflammation, researchers have invented a new sensor that enables MRI machines to visualize molecular activity ...

Order can arise from turbulent motion in space, forming magnetic field patterns that remain stable across stars, planets, and galaxies. New research explains how those large-scale magnetic fields take ...

For years, scientists noticed that magnetic fields could improve steel, but no one knew exactly why. New simulations reveal that magnetism changes how iron atoms behave, making it harder for carbon ...

Netflix’s Unlocked: A Jail Experiment chronicles revolutionary changes to incarceration taking place at select prisons in the U.S. The second season of Unlocked: A Jail Experiment — which premiered ...