magnets, Tag

A new form of carbon, called Q-carbon, has been discovered by researchers at North Carolina State University. The material is harder than diamond, and doesn't need to be subjected to extreme pressures or heat in order to...

There are all sorts of ways to make a home more eco-friendly, but did you ever think that magnets could be a possibility? Specifically, the magnetocaloric effect could play a role in futuristic refrigerators that wouldn’t...

Digital cameras have revolutionized the art of photography. Gone are hours in a darkroom, film, and treasured cameras passed down from one shutterbug to another. Slovenian industrial designer and artist Elvis Halilović has...

Architect Kengo Kuma recently built a humble modern pavilion as a tribute to a classic Japanese story written 800 years ago. The short story, Hojoki, by Kamo no Chomei tells the story of how Chomei left the earthquakes, famine...

Levitation isn’t just for Houdini anymore. A team of researchers at Tel-Aviv University has discovered a way to make objects float in mid-air using a process called quantum levitation, and they think the tech could...

The Magtenlight is a lighting system for your bike that uses a contact-less dynamo to generate the energy to illuminate your way at night. The system works by mounting a ring of 28 magnets on the spokes of your bike, which...