The story of magnets begins with magnetite, a natural rock that has the ability to attract iron. From ancient times, cultures like the Greeks and Chinese were fascinated by this property, ...

Lunar swirls are light-colored, sinuous features on the moon's surface, bright enough to be visible from a backyard telescope ...

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

After what it says was a “20 year lead in”, FMG’s Iron Bridge magnetite iron ore project in WA is now producing iron ore and even though it did cost US$3.9b to build, FMG reportedly received ...

Controlling electronics with light: The magnetite breakthrough Date: June 21, 2024 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: Researchers have discovered that by shining different ...