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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...