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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Magnetic map: image of the galaxy 9io9 showing the orientation of its magnetic field. (Courtesy: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/J Geach et al.) The most distant galactic magnetic field ever observed has been ...

The rapidly growing field of research on chiral phonons is giving researchers new insights into the fundamental behaviors and structures of materials. The chirality of phonons could pave the way for ...

For the first time in nearly a century, physicists have identified a brand new type of magnetic material. Crack open a physics textbook and you may read that scientists classify magnetic materials ...

A small computer aboard the International Space Station programmed by Portuguese students enables measurements as part of Raspberry Pi Foundation's Astro Pi Challenge. A group of high school students ...

Scientists in Japan have created a magnetic field that is 50 million times stronger than the one surrounding Earth. This is a new world record for a magnetic field generated indoors and, because of ...