Light has always been described as an elegant partnership of electric and magnetic fields, yet for nearly two centuries ...

In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...

For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through, a pure messenger of energy and information that leaves magnetic order ...

No one has ever probed a particle more stringently than this. In a new experiment, scientists measured a magnetic property of the electron more carefully than ever before, making the most precise ...

An international research team has sparked interest in the scientific community with results in quantum physics. In their current study, the researchers reinterpret the Higgs mechanism, which gives ...

Ising modeller: a D-Wave quantum processor has simulated a 3D magnet. (Courtesy: D-Wave Systems) Researchers in Canada have used a D-Wave quantum processing unit to solve a computationally challenging ...

Researchers in France have developed a new model of Earth’s magnetic field that includes a simple explanation for why it has flipped direction many times throughout Earth history. Most geophysicists ...

A new NASA mission will reveal the electron-scale physics of magnetic reconnection, a process that connects our planet to the rest of the Universe. Earth's magnetic field, immersed as it is within the ...