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 ...

Two German physicists have reimagined how to create powerful and uniform magnetic fields using compact permanent magnets. By overcoming the limitations of the well-known Halbach array, which works ...

These new iron-nitride magnets are stronger, cleaner to make, and made from domestic iron-salt waste and nitrogen. Science is slowly chipping away at the various environmental and geopolitical ...