January, a top United States materials company announced that it had started to manufacture rare earth magnets. It was ...

Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers ...

SAFETY: Neodymium magnets are surprisingly powerful when they ... If you drop a stack of small magnets down a relatively large pipe, they will fall quickly but as they go you should see them ...

Magnets have always been fun, particularly since the super-powerful neodymium type became readily available. You can stack them up, pull them apart, or, if you really want, use them for something ...

The world's strongest permanent magnets made of neodymium measure around 1.4 ... from the industrial and wind-energy sectors (a single big wind turbine might employ 6,000 pounds of permanent ...