Imagine trying to catch a fragment of a rocket nozzle in orbit above Earth’s atmosphere. The fragment is travelling faster than a bullet, and tumbling rapidly end over end. Around 27,000 orbiting ...

Some day, it may be possible for tiny squishy biomedical robots to make their way through people's bodies, without being tethered to an external power supply or control unit. We've recently gotten a ...

A new technique that uses magnetic fields to detect underwater objects has been unveiled by physicists in the UK. The fields induce electric currents in metallic objects and the resulting magnetic ...

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For the first time, researchers have noted that the magnetic fields of bacterial cells and magnetic nano-objects in liquid can be studied at high resolution using electron microscopy. A research team ...

New details have emerged about some of the most magnetic objects in our universe: Magnetars. Little is known about how the highly magnetic neutron stars are formed, or where they come from. Some ...

A research team led by a scientist from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has demonstrated for the first time that the magnetic fields of bacterial cells and magnetic nano-objects in ...