Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Neutrinos – you may have heard of them referred to as "ghost particles" – pass through everything because they are extremely ...

High pressure has quietly become one of the most powerful tools in condensed matter physics, and a new result in ...

In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck have shown that quantum sensors can remain highly accurate even in extremely noisy ...

NCCR SPIN focuses on creating scalable spin qubits in semiconductor nanostructures made of silicon and germanium, with the ...

A decades-old material is behaving in ways scientists never expected, and major tech companies are paying close attention.

We’re used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the ...

New research reveals light's magnetic field directly influences matter, causing scientists to rethink the 'Faraday Effect.' ...

What if part of Earth’s magnetic field were to act in reverse, flipping a fundamental electrical pattern scientists had ...

A new method using a combination of strong and weak electric fields to change nanoparticle speed and direction could improve ...

Scientists have discovered that light’s long-ignored magnetic field may directly drive the Faraday effect.