SAN FRANCISCO – One in 1,000 children under the age of 10 has early onset scoliosis, a sideways curvature of the spine that can be so severe that patients have a hard time breathing. Until now, ...

For more than a decade, researchers have been developing a lung-imaging method in which patients inhale magnetically aligned helium-3 gas atoms. Like a magnetic dye, the noble gas makes otherwise ...

The Magic mirror-like magnet. The brightness of the transmitted light from the magnet changes depending on whether the material is viewed from the front or the back. (Image: Kouji Taniguchi) OIHP-type ...

Magnets only come in dipoles, not single particles. The vector field for this force is visualized as emanating from one end of the magnet and looping around to the other end. The field continues ...