If Ed Scruggs, of Austin, Texas, hadn’t seen it for himself, he might never have believed it. But there it was on his 11-year-old daughter’s X-ray: a string of tiny, super-strong spherical magnets in ...

Physicists have made an ultra-powerful magnet that fits in the palm of a hand 1. Magnets are essential for studying molecular structures using a technique called nuclear magnetic resonance. But ...

A magnet small enough to fit in the palm of your hand can match the strength of some of the world’s most powerful magnets for the first time. But superconducting magnets that produce strong magnetic ...