[Kos] tipped us about an article he made presenting his experiences in designing and implementing a core rope memory. This magnetic read-only memory (ROM), contrary to ordinary coincident-current ...

Core memory, magnetized memory using tiny magnetic rings suspended on a grid of wires, is now more than five decades obsolete, yet it exerts a fascination for hardware hackers still. Not least ...

A major scientific breakthrough has settled a decades-old debate about the moon’s interior. Researchers have confirmed that ...

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than scientists thought.

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

Earth's mysterious core is yet again generating headlines as scientists learn more about what lies way beneath our feet. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth’s surface, the inner core is anchored ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet that sits some 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers) below the surface.

Sumitomo Electric has expanded its lineup of powder magnetic cores for motors and has added new material data to the ...

When the flow of that liquid metal changes inside the Earth's core, it can cause the planet's magnetic field to shift as well. And when that happens, the magnetic core also gets a jolt ...

A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins. Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star with the strongest magnetic fields in the ...

In the Earth (see image below right), the liquid metal that makes up the outer core passes through a magnetic field, which causes an electric current to flow within the liquid metal. The electric ...