"When we're looking for life on other planets, having a magnetic field is not necessarily key," Nichols told Live Science. "Because actually, with a much smaller magnetosphere, it still looks like ...

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields.

That’s because the study of magnetic materials is an ancient science. Ferromagnets have been known for thousands of years. Lodestone, a magnetized form of the mineral magnetite, fascinated the ...

Magnetic two-dimensional materials consisting of one or a few atomic layers have only recently become known and promise interesting applications, for example for the electronics of the future.

Earth is an island of tranquility in a sea of searing solar radiation and energetic particles, and we have the planet's magnetic field to thank. Scientists searching for early records of Earth's ...

A bizarre type of magnetic quasiparticle that looks like ... In a new study, published April 19 in the journal Science, scientists argue that skyrmions can be used to store information in a ...

A new study published in Applied Physics Letters highlights how researchers have made huge breakthroughs in magnetic levitation ... at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST ...

An artist's impression of a type of neutron star called a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the universe. European Space Agency/Handout ...

Last November, astronomers saw a quick gamma-ray explosion lasting one-tenth of a second. Then, 13 seconds later, they knew it came from galaxy M82, which is just 12 million light-years away.

One of the Korean researchers working on room temperature superconductors shows a sample with some possible magnetic locking effects ... Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science ...