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Using the latest nanofabrication methods, physicists have discovered a surprising new electronic property in one of the earliest-known and most-studied magnetic minerals on Earth -- lodestone. Also ...

The long-standing question of whether people have a magnetic sense of direction-a “sixth sense,” a compass in the head-is stirring once again. After more than a century of speculation about an innate ...

Scientists have created “soft” magnets that can flow and change shape, and that could be a boon to medicine and robotics. By Knvul Sheikh Lodestone, a naturally-occurring iron oxide, was the first ...