"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet," study lead Miki Nakajima, an associate professor in the ...

The user magnet, installed in the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility in Beijing's Huairou district, is the world's ...

From galaxies to the Sun, new research explains how turbulent motion can produce large-scale magnetic fields that remain ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without friction at extremely low temperatures, a phase now known as superfluid. Soon ...

Engineers building the UK’s future fusion power plant have successfully tested a key new technology that could make fusion energy cheaper and easier to operate.

Physicists have observed a strange new quantum phase in a graphene-based system, where a superfluid appears to freeze into a solid-like state. Cooling usually pushes matter through a simple sequence.

Using a superconducting quantum computer, physicists created a large and complex version of an odd quantum material that has ...

Engineers at the UK’s STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) program have successfully tested ...

A thin, watery layer coating the surface of ice is what makes it slick. Despite a great deal of theorizing over the centuries, though, it isn't entirely clear why that layer forms.

Science + You, a hands-on STEM exhibit focused on health and wellness, arrives at the Children’s Imaginarium now through May ...