Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Years ago, the Insane Clown Posse proposed a thought-provoking question: Magnets, how do they work? Donald Trump's recent rant at ...

Cutting a bar magnet in half won't get rid of its poles. It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that will be attracted to the other magnet's south pole, and vice versa. It's this ...

Okay, since we're on the topic, I have a slightly tangential question... How do you make one-way magnets? Or can you? I dismantled a hard drive a while back, and the two magnets inside pulled VERY ...

How do some neutron stars become the strongest magnets in the Universe? A German-British team of astrophysicists has found a possible answer to the question of how these so-called magnetars form. The ...

Warnings about magnets and gadgets have been passed down like tech folklore, often without much explanation. The reality is more nuanced: some electronics are genuinely vulnerable to magnetic fields, ...