Counterfeiters who sell knockoffs of popular shoes, handbags and other items are becoming increasingly sophisticated, forcing manufacturers to find new technologies to stay one step ahead. Now, ...

When you want to move an object from one place to another, you usually grab it with your hands or a robotic arm. But what if you want to move something you cannot touch without damaging or disrupting ...

The Sun’s magnetic field is invisible to our eyes, but it quietly shapes everything from the shimmering auroras over the ...

A team of Georgia Tech and Ohio State University researchers has developed a soft polymer material, called magnetic shape memory polymer, that uses magnetic fields to transform into a variety of ...

Since magnetic-field-induced strain was reported for NiMnGa (refs 1, 5), many other ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys, such as FePd (refs 2, 6, 7), FePt (ref. 8), NiCoGa (refs 9, 10), NiCoAl (refs ...