As if the sheer magnetism aspect of magnets wasn't magical enough, weblog Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories points out 17 very cool tricks that put your magnets to great use. For starters, a strong ...

Think refrigerator magnets are for shopping lists and works of youthful art? Think again. Researchers around the world are trying to revolutionize refrigeration by bringing magnets into the cold. A ...

BOSTON, July 28 (UPI) --Researchers at MIT have offered a new theory that suggests magnets can work as cooling agents and may one day cool refrigerators. The new theory describes the behavior of ...

Magnets are big-time materials, finding roles in products ranging from motors to medical-imaging systems. Now, a team of engineers’ improvement of a custom-made magnetic material increases the odds ...

The way a refrigerator keeps Chobanis chilly today isn’t all that different from how Jell-O trays were cooled and set in the 1950s. Fridges have been built using the the same basic physics for about ...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Science isn’t always the most popular subject, but there’s one museum trying to change that. Explora, a museum described as part science center and part kids museum, joined KRQE’s ...

At one time giant blocks of ice were the best solution we could come up with for keeping food cold. That primitive approach was eventually replaced by electric refrigerators using compressors and ...

I'm a nerd, but magnets are cool, really cool. Yet, I'm still not sold on Jishaku, "the game of magnetic action." On its Web site, Jishaku describes itself as being a game "like chess or checkers" ...

National MagLab creates world-record magnetic field with small, compact coil A magnet housed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida, has set a record for the strongest ...