Scientists have built magnets so powerful they can alter materials, disrupt electronics, and affect the human body at close range. The strongest magnets on Earth are used for research that cannot be ...

The quest for the world's strongest magnet faced a surprisingly violent problem: they kept exploding. At least, that was the issue facing a group of scientists at the National High Magnetic Field ...

Magnetic fields were known to be generated from the cores of planets and such objects, but the scientific world might have versed the natural. A staggering magnetic field of 1,000,000 gauss, or 100 ...