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A solar electric propulsion Hall Effect thruster being tested under vacuum conditions at NASA. Credit: NASA
Since the beginning of the space prog...
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New lightweight magnets have possible real-world applications.
An international team of researchers led by the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (UMR...
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Another interesting fact about magnets is that our Earth is a giant magnet. The South and North pole of our globe behaves much like the poles of a...
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Magnetic therapy is not something new and in some areas of the world it is absolutely not seen as an alternative method for healing but rather some...
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Magnetism is a fascinating subject and all though magnetic materials have been known since Ancient Greece, magnetism still presents a lot of questi...
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) was a 19th century Scottish physicist who demonstrated that electric and magnetic forces are two aspects of elect...
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Cultures throughout time have been intrigued by the mystery of Magnets. Science tells us much, lets start here with a simple explanation. In a rece...
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 - February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist with a wide range of contribu...
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Published the celebrated treatise entitled De Magnete(On the magnet) in 1600. This was the first comprehensive study of magnetism and took 17 years...
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