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 ...

A permanent magnet can magnetize parts of an old CRT television, distorting the image and colours due to the magnetic force on the electrons. A degaussing coil restores the TV to normal working order.

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, ...