The strongest magnetic field known was not in some planetary anomaly or natural cores of the universe, but in a lab in the United States.

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered rare-earth-like magnetic properties in iron under some special circumstances, which might spare the industry of using scarce ...

FOR the claim that is sometimes made that the magnet was first known to the Chinese, Dr. Kramer finds no support, but after examining the works of Aristotle and others, he comes to the conclusion that ...

In Hefei, China, physicists switched on a new machine that pushed magnetic fields to record strength. As the device powered up, it held a magnetic field more than 700,000 times stronger than Earth’s ...

In 2005, when South Africa and its partner countries in Africa submitted a proposal to host the world’s largest radio telescope, called the Square Kilometre Array, the continent had five ...