An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have overturned a 180-year-old scientific assumption, proving ...

For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...

An artist's interpretation of a magnetar. Magnets and the magnetic force are ubiquitous in our everyday lives, helping to guide us in unfamiliar territory and attach our kids' artwork to the fridge.

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that ...

A new method that uses 3D printing to fabricate permanent magnets with specific, pre-determined magnetic-field shapes has been created by researchers at the Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) in ...

Though predicted to exist, magnetic monopoles — hypothetical elementary particles with only one magnetic pole — have never been detected by scientists. But physicists have just accomplished the next ...

Using a diamond needle tipped with a single electron, physicists have found seemingly impossible one-sided magnets swirling along the surface of hematite. The rules of physics (the ones we know of, ...

I just read an interesting new physics paper that's posted up on the arxiv. It's called the Statistical mechanics of the US Supreme Court, and it attempts to understand how Supreme Court judges ...

Researchers at Rice University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have unveiled a physics-based model of magnetic resonance ...