In this video I show you 6 experiments with magnets: 1. Apples and magnet. For this experiment you need to build suspension ...

Explore a DIY electronics project where a homemade Gauss rifle is built using coils, capacitors, and electromagnetic pulses.

Can't see the video? Download an mp4 [13 MB] version of this video. Here's a legitimate reason to say 'wow', 'amazing' and 'awesome' all at the same time. Magnets are spooky! They can make other ...

Magnetic reconnection, a phenomenon wherein oppositely directed magnetic field lines in plasma can break apart and reconnect, is still very poorly understood. This is despite the fact that it is ...

Earth's magnetic field, a familiar directional indicator over long distances, is routinely probed in applications ranging from geology to archaeology. Now it has provided the basis for a technique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone knows that when you hold a compass in your hand the needle will point north thanks to Earth’s magnetic field, but aside ...

WASHINGTON — A year from now, the U.S. Navy hopes to launch a pair of small satellites that are able to harvest electrons from space and use them and the Earth’s magnetic field as a propulsion system.

New research describes striking similarity of laboratory research findings with observations of the four-satellite Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission that studies magnetic reconnection in space. As on ...

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 ...

The Standard Model, also known as the Theory of Almost Everything, describes how the fundamental particles of the universe interact. But the model isn’t complete: It fails to account for dark energy ...

In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...