NASA detects first “magnetic switchback” near Earth: an energetic change in your space shield that reveals new solar risks.

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

New multiscale simulations help crack long-standing mysteries behind the enormous radio arcs generated when galaxy clusters ...

For experimental physicists, the latest measurement of the muon is the best of times. For theorists there's still work to do.

Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, astronomy and physics Prof. Michael Smutko could see the Milky Way alongside ...

Scientists have discovered that light’s long-ignored magnetic field may directly drive the Faraday effect.

A new study reveals a "pinball phase" in a Wigner crystal, where electrons act as both solid and liquid in a quantum ...

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

The hybrid magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory generates the world’s strongest continuous magnetic field at ...

New devices navigate without the help of satellites or the risk of enemies jamming signals.

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

New research shows that the magnetic part of light actively shapes how light interacts with matter, challenging a ...