THE HUMBLE magnet may not seem to belong alongside steel, microchips and oil as a chess piece in the great diplomatic game. But on April 4th, as part of its retaliation against America’s tariffs, ...

A new kind of quantum magnet is made out of atoms only a billionth of a degree warmer than absolute zero – and physicists aren’t sure how it behaves. A regular magnet repels or attracts magnetic ...

DARPA is trying to use new more powerful superconducting magnets to triple the efficiency of a Magnetohydrodynamic drive for ultra-quiet navy ships. The PUMP program will develop an electrode material ...

The best parts of Apple's MagSafe are now part of the open Qi2.2 standard, which is now included on Pixel phones and likely coming to the next wave of flagships.

In a first-of-its-kind test, scientists used a levitated magnet to search for dark matter, the unidentified substance believed to be present throughout the cosmos. If dark matter is made up of ...