You might expect a simple iron magnet to play second fiddle to the fancy rare-earth ones, but Niron Magnetics claims its iron ...

A silver deer snaps to attention in a desolate forest. No, this isn’t some strange new breed—the deer is made of iron fillings. This short film, titled “FERRO,” manipulates magnetic iron filings to ...

If someone asked you to build a digital hourglass, what would your design look like? [BitBlt_Korry] took on that challenge, creating a functional art piece that hits it right on the nose: an hourglass ...

You’ve probably heard the term magnetic gradient before, but have you ever seen one? Now you can in [supermagnetman’s] video, below. The key is to use very fine (2 micron) iron filings and special ...

Fonts and the tools for designing them are intimately linked—Garamond was drawn with a quill, Helvetica was forged from molten metal, Gotham emerged from software, and a new font called Peak was ...

If you’re not sure the novelty of putty that reacts to magnets will hold your attention long enough to spend $15 on a whole can of it, Dave Hax shows you how to make your own on the cheap using just ...

A ferromagnetic material that possesses permanent magnetic properties, even when it is not located within a magnetic field, is known as a permanent magnet. It is known that one end of the magnet is ...