If you made a motor out of a magnet, a wire coil, and some needles, you probably remember that motors and generators depend on a rotating magnetic field. Once you know how it works, the concept is ...

No matter how its done, with whatever level of fakery, magnetic levitation just looks cool. We don’t know about you, but merely walking past the tackiest gadget shop, the displays of levitating and ...

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

The Sun may be playing a part in the generation of lightning strikes on Earth by temporarily 'bending' the Earth's magnetic field and allowing a shower of energetic particles to enter the upper ...

Goudsmit Magnetics, based in Waalre in the Netherlands, has launched a rotating Cleanflow magnetic separator that can be cleaned without stopping production. It is compatible with free-fall lines in a ...

Robotic designs that operate autonomously or alongside human workers offer convenience, efficiency and accuracy, greatly benefiting the manufacturing and industrial sectors. Here, monitoring motor ...

· Though touted as explorations of art and technology, most all the works in the group show "Interface" rely on old-fashioned motors, not Pentium chips. Worth the trip is Claire Watkins's "Flock of ...