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A material thought to be nonmagnetic may reveal a hidden magnetic state when thinned to just a few atomic layers and placed under strain. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com A material once ...

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked ...

A buried volcanic complex on the far side of the Moon suggests that the satellite may once have had a magnetic field similar ...

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THERE are few places on Earth where conditions get as extreme as they do at the National Ignition Facility near Los Angeles. At its heart, 192 lasers are trained on a gold cylinder roughly the size of ...