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Magnets are everywhere in our daily lives, even if we don’t always notice them. From holding up notes on the fridge to powering complex machines, magnetism plays a crucial role in technology, science, ...

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 ...

Those concepts and questions were the focus of three-panel cardboard backdrops with decorations and students standing by Tuesday at the Show Me Center during the 61st annual Southeast Missouri ...

It will produce a magnetic field 280,000 times stronger than the one made by Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Engineers in ...

KLINE TWP. — Like a magnetic train on display in the gymnasium at McAdoo-Kelayres Elementary/Middle School, not every science experiment works. The train, a wood block with circular magnets in the ...

Magnetism transforms a weird new material from soft to rigid in a split second. This metamaterial — a synthetic structure designed to behave in ways that natural materials don’t — comprises a gridlike ...

The University of Birmingham has announced the successful completion of a project demonstrating that the rare earth magnets in loudspeakers, which are currently lost to landfill, can be successfully ...

Cutting a bar magnet in half won't get rid of its poles. It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that will be attracted to the other magnet's south pole, and vice versa. It's this ...