Since their relatively recent appearance on the commercial scene, rare-earth magnets have made quite a splash in the public imagination. The amount of magnetic energy packed into these tiny, shiny ...

Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers working ...

Ever wondered why those tiny neodymium magnets are so insanely strong? Dive into the science and engineering behind these ...

Rare earth magnets are a $50 billion market — but they’re embedded in over $10 trillion of downstream products, from fighter ...

Did you know GM invented the domestic, affordable permanent magnet? Before this neodymium-iron-boron magnet came along in 1984, electric motors, generators, audio speakers, hard-disk drives, and the ...

diy Magnetic Rubik's Cube from Scratch In today's video I want to show you how to make Rubik's cube from wood and neodymium ...

Lenz’s Law is one of those physics tricks that look like magic if you don’t understand what’s happening. [Seth Robinson] was inspired by the way eddy currents cause a cylindrical neodymium magnet to ...