Electro-permanent magnets (EPMs) are pretty nifty concepts, and if you aren’t familiar with them, they are permanent magnets with the ability to be electrically switched on or off. Unlike an ...

Researchers produced 1.58-tesla magnetic fields and changed the shock layer around models traveling through simulated reentry ...

Damping vibrations is crucial for precision experiments, for example in astronomy. A new invention uses a special kind of magnets to achieve this -- electropermanent magnets. They consist of a ...

The lifting electromagnet article I posted years ago (https://www.codrey.com/electronic-circuits/lifting-electromagnet-diy/) has been more popular that it should have ...

What is an electromagnet? What does electromagnetic mean? How do electromagnets work? Electromagnets use an electrical current in order to produce magnetic poles. The operate just like permanent ...

A new Sky Train test track in Southern China has debuted the world's first maglev transit system built using permanent magnets instead of electromagnets. It's capable of keeping its underslung ...

A researcher in New Jersey says he had a nuclear fusion breakthrough while helping his son with a science project. He realized he could explore which kinds of permanent magnets could be powerful and ...

A number of readers questioned the veracity of the technology presented in this article. To address their concerns, we did a follow-up, which can be found here. Permanent magnets are an integral part ...