Much of science is performed through inference, with the readings on instruments, a flash of light in heavy water, or the ...
Magnetic reconnection is a process that occurs when the magnetic fields of a conductive plasma quickly rearrange and release ...
Scientists demonstrated a contactless way to move and rotate conductive objects that could someday help robots safely handle ...
Quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity explain how the Universe works at the tiniest and largest scales, respectively. Quantum mechanics has revealed the probabilistic nature of ...
Led by Christopher Tunnell, associate professor of physics and astronomy, the researchers used a tiny floating magnet as a highly sensitive detector designed to register the faint push an ultraheavy ...
On the far left of an otherwise normal picture of a Martian landscape is a strange dark shadow that looks a little like the silhouette of a jellyfish with tentacles dangling down – or, more ...
Measuring faint magnetic fields is useful in a number of areas, including mapping brain activity, monitoring hearts and probing fundamental physics. Typically, picking up such weak signals requires ...
The device’s simple design could rival much more complex alternatives in biophysics research — and could even be used to search for dark matter. Scientists have turned a levitating magnet into a ...
Samsung Heavy Industries' concept rendering of its proposed floating data center platform, which the company aims to commercialize by 2028. Image: Samsung Heavy Industries Samsung Heavy Industries ...
On June 3, a flatbed truck arrived at the front gates of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) carrying a piece of machinery that could influence the course ...
There’s an island in South Boston’s Fort Point Channel that wasn’t there just days ago. In less than a week, engineers and landscapers built a 10-ton floating wetland from recycled pipes, stainless ...
An isolated magnet’s intrinsic angular momentum induces gyroscopic motion, an observation that could lead to ultrasensitive magnetometers. Spin around. The magnetic moment (orange arrow) of a ...