There’s something strangely fascinating about the idea that a person could attract metal objects to their body like a living ...

After teaching about it for years in science classes, I onlyrecently got to personally experience what getting a MagneticResonance Imaging is all about. It was kind of a letdown. Knowing I was to be ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The sun has a flair for putting on spectacular shows, and last month’s was a doozy. Images taken at various National Science Foundation-funded observatories caught our local star in the act of ...

When we think of cosmic power, magnetism doesn’t usually come to mind. The Sun’s nuclear furnace churns out blistering heat and blinding light, but magnetism plays no role in the fusion process, which ...

A magnet made of plastic material instead of iron has been developed by researchers at Ohio State University and the Du Pont Central Research Laboratory, scientists said Thursday. The discovery-the ...

Thin layers of two non-magnetic metals – copper and manganese – become magnets when they are in contact with buckminsterfullerene molecules. This discovery has been made by physicists in the UK, US ...

A Micromag filter installed. It’s the basic model magnetic filtration system available in three sizes (5, 10, and 20 inches) from Eclipse Magnetics, for filtering ferrous particles from machine ...