In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the ...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are advancing next-generation electronics by unlocking the behavior of ...

A pair of studies from Argonne National Laboratory, published in recent months, have given physicists two new ways to peer ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas coalesce into clouds where stars are born. In this process, there is a hidden ...

Repeated impacts can create minerals that lock in magnetic signals long after the Moon’s global field has disappeared.

Researchers have for the first time managed to use electricity to switch on magnetism in a material that’s normally non-magnetic. This could be a step towards making electronic components out of ...