For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...

Researchers have found that exposing a certain class of particles -- micron-sized beads endowed with a special magnetic sensitivity -- to a rapidly alternating, rotating magnetic field causes them to ...

In the supplemental material the experimental setup is shown (see top image), which is designed to make the individual iron-coated polymer particles rotate. The particles are called Janus particles ...

You might be scared if you heard Earth’s North Pole and South Pole were about to flip positions. The sun is about to do the same thing, and it’s not a worry for us. The sun is a big magnetic ball of ...

How do we extract energy from space around a spacecraft? If there are differences in the speed of the solar wind or differences in flows of particles around a spacecraft or where a spacecraft is ...

Marion Cromb receives funding from EPSRC grant EP/W007444/1. Hendrik Ulbricht receives funding from EPSRC (grant EP/W007444/1). Black holes are mysterious objects – there’s a lot we don’t know about ...