Complex dynamics: This illustration depicts the Sun's magnetic fields overlaid on an image captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The complex overlay of lines can teach scientists about the ...

As someone who studies materials, Lu Li knows people want to hear about the exciting new applications and technologies his ...

ALMA reveals that gravity reorients magnetic fields in 17 young clusters, aligning them as gas collapses and accelerating ...

An international research team has sparked interest in the scientific community with results in quantum physics. In their current study, the researchers reinterpret the Higgs mechanism, which gives ...

Scientists studying Earth's magnetic field have discovered that its electric heartbeat flows in the opposite direction from ...

Plasma emerging from the solar surface along magnetic field lines The Sun’s extended magnetic field provides a vital shield for astronauts; without it they would be left exposed to potentially deadly ...

Trapped electrons traveling in circular loops at extreme speeds inside graphene quantum dots are highly sensitive to external magnetic fields and could be used as novel magnetic field sensors with ...

When the results of an experiment don't match predictions made by the best theory of the day, something is off. Fifteen years ago, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered something ...

Compasses and iron filings are used to map a magnetic field. Magnetic Fields: Compasses and iron filings are used to map a magnetic field. Students learn to draw magnetic field lines to represent ...