Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

The relationship between friction and load, quantified three centuries ago, has an exception when the interaction causes ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

Multiferroic metals are materials that exhibit both electric polarization and magnetic order in the same crystal—a state ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

LAND O'LAKES, Fla. — Sports are a big part of the high school experience for a lot of students, and now, Pasco County School Board members have started the process of adding athletics programs to two ...

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or spins, align in one of two ways: all pointing in the same direction in ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a surprising mathematical connection between two areas of condensed ...

Qatar has reported the destruction of two Iranian combat aircraft during operations to defend its territory against attack by Tehran. “The Qatar Emiri Air Force [QEAF] successfully shot down two ...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Fighting escalated in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday after tens of thousands of residents fled two predominantly ethnic Kurdish neighborhoods when the military ...