When I was growing up, magnets were the enemy of technology. They could erase your homework on a floppy disk, make your tube TV's colors go funny, and most of the time you probably wanted to avoid ...

We've seen a few hybrid tablet stylus/ballpoint pens kicking around, but the Polar Pen, with its barrel made out of rare earth magnets, takes the absolute biscuit. Michelle Starr Science editor ...

THE HUMBLE magnet may not seem to belong alongside steel, microchips and oil as a chess piece in the great diplomatic game. But on April 4th, as part of its retaliation against America’s tariffs, ...

An innovation that came into existence years ago could now help the United States tackle China's dominance in a key sector. A scientist working at the University of Minnesota lab years ago developed ...

The president made the comment while discussing how every day products such as vehicles and computers require magnets to operate, and to support his administration's threat of high tariffs on goods ...

The quest for the world's strongest magnet faced a surprisingly violent problem: they kept exploding. At least, that was the issue facing a group of scientists at the National High Magnetic Field ...

Magnets could make bulky centrifuges obsolete in space oxygen systems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have developed ...

America’s ability to make precision-guided missiles was threatened during Trump’s tariff war. But experienced players have ...