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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Instead of years of pain and surgeries, young scoliosis patients literally may be able to straighten out their lives with magnets. It happens more often than you think. One in every 1,000 children ...

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 ...

Madelin Manso wanted to die. Just like designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. But instead of reaching for the noose, she grabbed a lifeline in a drug that club kids used to take to ...

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 ...

Every person who reads these pages is likely to have encountered a neodymium magnet. Most of us interact with them on a daily basis, so it is easy to assume that the process for their manufacture must ...

As a young kid, I thought magnets were about the coolest things ever. Here in my 30s, I kind of feel the same way. Magnets made nerdy headlines recently, with the new iPad Pro, which is chock-full of ...