The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

An experiment with a carbon material in a magnetic field has revealed a novel way for electrons to move, which doesn't fully ...

Ferromagnets, such as iron, cobalt, and nickel, are materials with a strong, spontaneous, and permanent magnetic field. Over ...

For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin of the ...

Ice comes in more forms than what you’ll find in a freezer or a glacier. Since 1900, scientists have observed more than 20 ...

Researchers from Skoltech (part of the VEB.RF group) and the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics have developed ...

A group of undergraduate students pulled off something remarkable: they built their own dark matter detector and used it to ...

Measuring the strength of gravity is extraordinarily difficult, and different experiments have always disagreed – but a new ...

An international team of physicists has achieved unprecedented accuracy in computing the magnetic properties of the muon ...

Magnetic domains can take on a wide range of structures. In certain soft magnetic materials, they form complex zig-zag ...

A mysterious magnetic material once thought to host an exotic “quantum spin liquid” has turned out to be something entirely ...

A University of Washington professor and hundreds of others who measured the muon's magnetism have won a $3 million ...