For observers on Earth, the sun appears as a bright, familiar disk—but what we see is only half the story. Like the moon, one ...

Researchers have found that magnetic fields buried deep inside stars can survive their entire lifetimes and later reappear on ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our planet is doomed. In a few billion years, the sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel and swell into a red giant—a star so big it will ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden ...

In the beginning, there was no magnetism. Immediately after the Big Bang, the universe contained an awesomely hot cloud of electrically charged protons, electrons, helium and lithium nuclei. Each ...

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are advancing next-generation electronics by unlocking the behavior of ...

Widespread magnetism dating from our solar system’s earliest beginnings some 4.57 billion years ago likely played a major role in creating orbital order out of chaos. But until now, magnetism’s role ...

From quantum spins in exotic 2D materials to the magnets in your kitchen appliances, magnetism is everywhere — quietly powering, protecting, and connecting our lives. Scientists are now mapping its ...

Individual atoms with an odd number of electrons have a magnetic moment from the spin of the unpaired electron. Materials consisting of elements with an even number of electrons—such as carbon, ...