Online retail giants Amazon and eBay have been urged to pull “potentially deadly” magnets from their virtual shelves.

The third type of magnetism could prove the most useful of all—if researchers can identify the materials that exhibit it.

Magnets for electric cars and wind turbines contain only a small amount of the rare earth metal dysprosium. Yet, this metal is responsible for a large share of the environmental impact and costs, ...

The takedown orders target listings for toys that include small high-powered magnets covered by a permanent prohibition under ...

If you grew up around some of the earlier models of televisions and computers, you may have received at least one sternly-worded warning to never place a magnet near them. These warnings still persist ...

Japanese manufacturers are developing technologies to make powerful motor magnets used in electric and hybrid vehicles ...

I’ve always been extremely paranoid about magnets getting anywhere near my electronics. I have a vision of screens warping, precious files vanishing into the ether, and my smartphone shutting down ...

How Does Superheating Reduce the Magnetism of Magnets? To understand how temperature might affect a magnet, you need to look at the atomic structure of the elements it is made of. Magnets are made of ...

For nearly a century, there were two known kinds of magnets. Ferromagnets are the classic magnets that attract metal and keep pictures stuck to the refrigerator. Antiferromagnets hide their magnetism ...