Magnets can act as wireless cooling agents and may one day be used to cool refrigerators and laptops, MIT scientists say. The researchers found that when exposed to a magnetic field gradient, magnons ...

BOSTON, July 28 (UPI) --Researchers at MIT have offered a new theory that suggests magnets can work as cooling agents and may one day cool refrigerators. The new theory describes the behavior of ...

As if the sheer magnetism aspect of magnets wasn't magical enough, weblog Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories points out 17 very cool tricks that put your magnets to great use. For starters, a strong ...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Science isn’t always the most popular subject, but there’s one museum trying to change that. Explora, a museum described as part science center and part kids museum, joined KRQE’s ...

Magnets are big-time materials, finding roles in products ranging from motors to medical-imaging systems. Now, a team of engineers’ improvement of a custom-made magnetic material increases the odds ...

Think refrigerator magnets are for shopping lists and works of youthful art? Think again. Researchers around the world are trying to revolutionize refrigeration by bringing magnets into the cold. A ...

Fridge magnets are no doubt a hot favourite. For most people, picking quirky magnets is a must-do during travel. Are you one among them? Then you will definitely agree when we say that the more the ...

The way a refrigerator keeps Chobanis chilly today isn’t all that different from how Jell-O trays were cooled and set in the 1950s. Fridges have been built using the the same basic physics for about ...

I'm a nerd, but magnets are cool, really cool. Yet, I'm still not sold on Jishaku, "the game of magnetic action." On its Web site, Jishaku describes itself as being a game "like chess or checkers" ...