For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...

A Hebrew University study finds light’s magnetic field plays a larger role in material behavior than believed, with implications for optical and quantum technologies.

The MHD model describes the evolution of the electromagnetic field through a reduced set of Maxwell’s equations valid for certain low-frequency phenomena, and the dynamics of the plasma current ...

A newly discovered mechanism known as microtube implosion could make it possible to generate magnetic fields 1000 times stronger than any yet seen in the laboratory. According to the researchers who ...

Conceptual illustration of bladed microtube implosion (BMI)Sawtooth-like inner blades on the cylindrical target induce off-axis charged flows under ultraintense laser irradiation, driving strong loop ...

Physicists in Japan have created the strongest controllable magnetic field in recorded human history. Not only the strongest field ever, but the magnetic field created by scientists at the University ...

Researchers in France have developed a new model of Earth’s magnetic field that includes a simple explanation for why it has flipped direction many times throughout Earth history. Most geophysicists ...

If you can't journey to the centre of the Earth, why not bring the churning heart of the planet to your lab? It's scary stuff, but Adrian Cho thinks it might tell us why we're still alive TAKE 14 ...

Graphene, the extraordinary form of carbon that consists of a single layer of carbon atoms, has produced another in a long list of experimental surprises. In the current issue of the journal Science, ...