Imagine if a doctor could remotely do a non-invasive, highly precise medical procedure on her patients using a tiny robot, or ...

Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing ...

Superconductors aside, these devices are pretty much all operating in the same way; an object with a permanent rare-earth magnet is held in a stable position between a pair of electromagnets one ...

Magnetism is a force we can’t see. Something is magnetic if it can pull another magnetic object towards it. Just like these fridge magnets. A magnet attracts or repels things made from certain ...

Scientists have developed a single-cell green microalgae coated with magnetic material. This miniature robot was put to the test: would the microalgae with its magnetic coating be able to swim through ...

The amount of magnetic energy packed into these tiny, shiny objects has led to technological leaps that weren’t possible before they came along, like the vibration motors in cell phones ...

A robot made of magnetic slime with a custard-like consistency can navigate narrow passages, grasp objects and fix broken circuits. It could be deployed inside the body to perform tasks such as ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Magnet Fishing Simulator Are you bored of traditional fishing? Put your rod away and search in outdoor waters for ferromagnetic objects available to ...

But if the charged objects are moving, they can also create and experience a magnetic force. One way to get moving charges is to run electric current through a wire. (This is literally a stream of ...

Researchers experimentally developed a new magnetic state that they have named magneto-ionic vortex, or "vortion." This new object allows "on-demand" control of the magnetic properties of a ...

Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...