In mid-January, a top United States materials company announced that it had started to manufacture rare earth magnets. It was important news—there are no large U.S. makers of the neodymium ...

But rather than using alternating currents through large inductors, [Tim] put 40 neodymium magnets with alternating polarity around the circumference of a large MDF disk. When driven by a drill ...

Magnets have always been fun, particularly since the super-powerful neodymium type became readily available. You can stack them up, pull them apart, or, if you really want, use them for something ...

SAFETY: Neodymium magnets are surprisingly powerful when they ... If you drop a stack of small magnets down a relatively large pipe, they will fall quickly but as they go you should see them ...

The collaboration could fast-track the formation of one of the world's first commercial permanent REE magnet supply chains ...