Purdue University researchers have developed patent-pending one-dimensional boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) containing spin qubits, or spin defects. The BNNTs are more sensitive in detecting off-axis ...

A wild idea has been proposed to generate electric power from Earth's rotation with the help of magnetic fields. A new research has presented experimental evidence confirming a previously theorized ...

Measuring faint magnetic fields is useful in a number of areas, including mapping brain activity, monitoring hearts and ...

For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding objects from light using so-called metamaterials with extreme and often unrealistic ...

Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats. Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of ...