Placing a magnet on your refrigerator might hold up your calendar, but researchers have now found that placing one outside a plasma chamber causes a localized, fireball-like structure. This work may ...

Short pulses of light that impart rotation on a material's atoms can be used to switch a property called ferroaxiality, which ...

The magnetic field lines of a bar magnet can be viewed by using compasses or by shaking iron filings onto a platform above the magnet. Place the magnet on top of the paper in view of the document ...

Key learning points Properties of magnets What are magnetic fields? Magnetic fields lines are invisible but they fill the space around a magnet where the magnetic forces work on magnetic materials, ...

Magnetic stirring bars are the coolest piece of equipment you’ll see in a high-school chemistry lab. They’re a great way for agitating a solution without having to stand there manually and do it ...

Themis Bowcock receives funding from UKRI. Mark Lancaster receives funding from UKRI (STFC), Horizon 2020. University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK.