It is the net magnetic moment of ferromagnets that has so far been key to their applications, with an alternative type of magnetic material, the antiferromagnet, deemed "useless" by their discoverer ...

It’s amazing how quickly medical science made radiography one of its main diagnostic tools. Medicine had barely emerged from its Dark Age of bloodletting and the four humours when X-rays were ...

If you say that you’re “nuking” something, pretty much everyone will know that you mean you’re heating something in the microwave. It’s technically incorrect, of course, as the magnetron inside the ...

We asked experts if regular exposure to low levels of radiation could be harmful to health. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Melinda Wenner Moyer Q: It seems as if every time ...

"This discovery could indicate a new type of physics or new models of stellar evolution." One of the strangest cosmic objects ever seen just got even weirder — NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope caught it ...

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry recently unveiled a new interactive “Beyond the Surface: The Art of X-rays” exhibit by photographer Andrei Duman, allowing museum guests to examine the ...