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Why do magnets attract and repel

Magnets can pull objects closer or push them away without even touching. This video explains why magnets attract and repel, and how magnetic poles and fields make this possible. A simple and clear ...
Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before ...
There is so much information about the world and life itself out there that it’s almost unfathomable. And every now and then, you will learn new information that will blow your mind into a thousand ...
Altenhofen: “ Developing the tread pattern for the TKC 80² and optimising it on noise is just a matter of using the best ...
Strong magnets tend to be large and power-hungry, but a new design has produced a powerful magnet that fits in the palm of ...
When we think of powerful magnets used in particle accelerators or for NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance), we often envision bulky machines, sometimes the size of buildings. But in an extraordinary ...
Researchers have potentially discovered a way to make computers process data about 1,000 times ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a surprising mathematical connection between two areas of condensed ...
Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...
Researchers from the Department of Physics and the University Institute of Materials at the University of Alicante (UA) and the Low Temperature and High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Autonomous ...
Physicists weren’t sure why Moon rocks brought back during the Apollo missions are more strongly magnetized than models predict ...