The world's first practical plastic magnet has been created at the University of Durham, according to a report in New Scientist magazine. After three months of mostly fruitless experiments, ...

An ultrafast, low-cost computer that boots up instantly and safeguards data in case of a crash may sound like a mythical fairy tale beast, but the idea behind it comes from less fanciful stuff: the ...

The world's first organic polymer magnet has just made its debut; soon, you may be able to scrap those metal magnets and pull out a plastic version. A team of scientists from the University of ...

A team of chemists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have created the world's first plastic magnets. It took 13 years of painstaking investigation, but Andrzej Rajca, a professor of chemistry, ...

The world's first practical plastic magnet has been created at the University of Durham, according to a report in New Scientist magazine. After three months of mostly fruitless experiments, ...

British scientists have developed the world’s first practical plastic magnet. The breakthrough could lead to new advances in computing and medical applications. In the past, magnets were always metal.

A magnet made of plastic material instead of iron has been developed by researchers at Ohio State University and the Du Pont Central Research Laboratory, scientists said Thursday. The discovery-the ...

Low-cost, flexible electronics and better computer data storage might result from the world's first light-tunable plastic magnet, just developed at Ohio State University. With colleagues at the ...

It looks like a small piece of transparent film with tiny engravings on it, and is flexible enough to be bent into a tube. Yet, this piece of “smart” plastic demonstrates excellent performance in ...

This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years old. The IBM 726 digital tape drive was introduced in 1952 to provide larger amounts of digital storage for computers, in ...

Rupert started off as a nerdy lad expecting to be an electronics engineer, but having tried it for a while discovered that journalism was more fun. He ended up on PC Magazine in the early '90s, before ...