Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chain of plasmoids is created on the equatorial plane along the current sheet, where the particle density (left part) is higher.

A student-built CubeSat from the University of Michigan will investigate whether small satellites can be maintained in low Earth orbit without thrusters or propellant. Scheduled to launch from the ...

Finding an elusive elementary particle is more viable than ever after an international team of scientists conducted the first experiment to explore magnetic monopoles using the Large Hadron Collider.

Magnetic tweezers are a versatile single-molecule manipulation technique that uses magnetic fields to apply forces and torques on magnetic particles attached to biological molecules, such as DNA, RNA, ...