Like cats, magnets for physics experiments can have many lives. In 2015, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory repurposed two MRI magnets as part of a ...

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 ...

Dark matter search: Team co-leader Christopher Tunnell is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice) A tiny neodymium particle suspended inside a ...

In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two ...

An Auburn University study finds that magnetic fields can guide electrons in plasma much like traffic signals, giving ...

Developing a quantum magnetism library: Group leader Wei Li. (Courtesy: Wei Li) Quantum spin liquid magnets are materials that cannot arrange their magnetic moments, or spins, in a regular, stable ...