Researchers found friction can occur without contact, driven by magnetic dynamics, and does not always increase with load. The effect could enable controllable, wear-free technologies.

One of the commonly used tools is the lab magnetic stirrer. This works in such a manner that it creates a magnetic field that ...

Two German physicists have reimagined how to create powerful and uniform magnetic fields using compact permanent magnets. By overcoming the limitations of the well-known Halbach array, which works ...

But powerful magnets are usually large and energy hungry. Chukun Gao at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ...

People have warned for years that magnets can wipe out hard drives, but the real answer is a lot less dramatic than that old ...

Google-Tesla MagNet Challenge is an annual competition. It’s designed to accelerate innovation in magnetic modeling using ...