Before the discovery of the neodymium magnet, the strongest permanent magnet was the samarium–cobalt magnet, which was based on the Sm 2 Co 17 intermetallic phase. However, samarium is expensive ...

For many years, physics studies focused on two main types of magnetism, namely ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. The ...

Magnet fishers have discovered a 350-year-old cannonball in the River Lochy, which is thought to have been used during the ...

An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state that was discovered in a magnetic compound ...

Controlling magnetism in a device is not easy; unusually large magnetic fields or lots of electricity are needed, which are ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have successfully combined two unusual materials—once thought impossible to merge—into a ...

A team of IBM researchers just created the world's smallest magnet using a solitary atom ... Future applications of this discovery could allow people to store 1,000 times more information ...