Wouldn't it be incredible to control precise hand movements in virtual reality? How would you like to do it using... magnets? Thanks to a group of researchers at the University of Washington and ...

The belt buckle can trace its roots back thousands of years, and the design and functionality of the average buckle hasn’t changed for centuries. But it’s the year 2013 now, and in addition to ...

This is magic, big news, both, or neither. It’s so exciting to see magnets behave in this bizarre and wonderful way that we think it’s hard to forecast where this will go. Shown above is a pair of ...

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 ...