This is Ferrolic--a clock displays the time by manipulating magnetic fluids. The figures are somewhat vague and soft, like the inkblots of Hermann Rorschach's famous psychological test. Appropriately, Zelf Koelman of the...

Would you like to smash small household objects? Then you need a pair of neodymium magnets. Nothing else will work. First4Magnets sells all sorts of magnets, including these heavy neodymium magnets. When placed in a fram...

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw0XCeYAeK8](Video Link)The short answer is: have a lot of fun. The crew at Vat19 combined 500 cans of magnetic silly putty to create a 100-pound mound of the stuff. Then they subjected i...

(Image: Vice)Some mammals are sensitive to the Earth's magnetic fields. Several scientists recently published a study in Frontiers in Zoology asserting that dogs are among them. They discovered that when dogs are urinati...

Now those are two words I'd never thought...  ...of magnetic fields. “The impact of magnetism in science is limited by an apparently...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ysnXH53Wo] YouTube link. Note the magnets are not attracted to the copper.  The physics  of the process is explained briefly by thedevguy: The movement of the magnet induces...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a metal alloy composed of nickel, cobalt, manganese and tin. This "multiferroic composite" can convert heat into electricity! In this case, the new alloy — Ni45C...

Foxes often jump high into the air in order to pounce on prey from above. They have an unusual ability to not only judge the correct direction of attack, but the proper distance to leap in a parabolic arc. How do they...

The Earth's magnetic field fluctuates in intensity. But until recently, most scientists thought that it wouldn't change more than 16% in a century. Slag recovered from a 3,000-year old Egyptian copper mine indicates th...

Medical researchers were able to disrupt the moral judgments of test subjects by subjecting the part of the brain responsible for such decisions to magnetic forces: For their experiment, the scientists had 20 subjects...