When the atomic lattice in a rare-earth crystal gets animated with a corkscrew-shaped vibration called a chiral phonon, the crystal becomes a magnet.

Researchers have figured out how to control magnetic bacteria and get it to cross blood vessel walls to deliver anti-cancer drugs.

A new untethered magnetic needle may one day be able to tap through tissue to perform less invasive, more precise surgery,

A way to create a more complex magnetic moment arrangement in chromium triiodide allows the material to store more information.

Results from long-running experiment suggest fundamental particles called muons behave in a way that the Standard Model of particle physics doesn't predict.

New magnetic building blocks, which the scientists call modules, are not dipolar but quadrupolar. That gives the tiny components possibility in soft robotics.

Watch an origami crane-like micromachine bird moves its wings and neck. Programmable nanomagnets make it work.

"Accidental exploration" helped physicists discover a new kind of magnetism in graphene, one that had been predicted but not yet observed.

A spintronic memory device that uses ferrimagnets could accelerate the commercial growth of spin-based memory.

A new therapy that relies on a moth-infecting virus and nanomagnets could repair genes that cause diseases like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell.