This experiment demonstrates how certain liquids behave when exposed to magnetic fields, creating the appearance of freezing around magnets.

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

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If time could rewind to the solar system 4 billion years ago, Mars might overturn all our perceptions of it—back then, it was ...

The field of ultrafast magnetism explores how flashes of light can manipulate a material's magnetization in trillionths of a second. In the process called all-optical switching (AOS), a single laser ...

The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...

The NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft is scheduled to launch on September 23, 2025, to study ...

In a prominent advance for Indian quantum research, scientists have revealed how atoms, the building blocks of everything stop behaving as independent particles when pushed into extremely ...