15-03-30 New research shows bacteria can use tiny magnetic particles to effectively create a 'natural battery.' According to work published in journal Science on 27 March, the bacteria can load electrons onto and discharge electrons from microscopic particle...

15-02-23 Researchers have unveiled a new type of sensor that could give humans the ability to detect magnetic fields. 研究人员日前发布了一款新型传感器，可让人类拥有探测磁场的能力。 It works in the same way as bacteria, insects and even vertebrates like birds...

14-11-10 For much the same reason LCD televisions offer eye-popping performance, a thermomagnetic processing method developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can advance the performance of polymers. Polymers are used in cars, plan...

14-10-18 据外媒报道，宜家推出一款能见人夸人的穿衣镜，会表扬站在镜子面前的人。比如哇，你是不是最近健身了？你的眼睛太迷人了。 Who hasn't looked in the mirror before leaving for work and felt discouraged before even stepping out of the house? A new mirror from...

14-10-17 Imagine the world waking up one morning to discover that all compasses pointed south instead of north. It's not as bizarre as it sounds. Earth's magnetic field has flipped -- though not overnight -- many times throughout the planet's history. Its di...

14-10-17 As in Alice's journey through the looking-glass to Wonderland, mirrors in the real world can sometimes behave in surprising and unexpected ways, including a new class of mirror that works like no other. As reported today in The Optical Society's (OS...

14-10-13 Mazhar Ali, a fifth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Bob Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, has spent his academic career discovering new superconductors, materials coveted for their ability to...

14-09-01 Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, improves memory, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. The discovery opens a new field...

14-07-31 Earth and Mercury are both rocky planets with iron cores, but Mercury's interior differs from Earth's in a way that explains why the planet has such a bizarre（奇异的） magnetic field, UCLA planetary physicists and colleagues report. Measurements fr...

14-06-26 Each fall millions of monarch butterflies use a sophisticated navigation system to transverse（横断） 2,000 miles from breeding sites across the eastern United States to an overwintering habitat in specific groves of fir trees in central Mexico. Sci...