How come our universe is full of disorder, when all elementary particles appear to follow strictly ordered laws of physics? And are there organizing principles behind disorder and apparent chaos?

As married research professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dustin Gilbert and Anne Murray often discuss their ...

Scientists discover that most bee species can sense Earth’s magnetic field using iron-rich cells that may aid navigation and communication.

Quantum computers are still a work in progress but quantum sensors are already in use at hospitals, laboratories and by ...

In a new discovery, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science have found that ...

Today's computers store information using only two values: 0 and 1. But as electronic devices become smaller and reach their ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All the magnets you have ever interacted with, such as the tchotchkes stuck to your refrigerator door, are magnetic for the same reason.

Individual atoms with an odd number of electrons have a magnetic moment from the spin of the unpaired electron. Materials consisting of elements with an even number of electrons—such as carbon, ...

In the beginning, there was no magnetism. Immediately after the Big Bang, the universe contained an awesomely hot cloud of electrically charged protons, electrons, helium and lithium nuclei. Each ...

You might have used the term “animal magnetism” to describe the je ne sais quoi that allows only a lucky few people to consistently charm the pants off their audiences, literally or figuratively.