Magnets are used a lot in everyday life, to keep you fridge closed, in computers, in headphones and speakers and also in MRI scanners that take pictures of the inside of our bodies.
Some games make use of magnets. This is one of my favorites. In the future we may use magnets in many different ways.
Head over to STILE to see how we can use them to charge our technology without charging wires.
Magnetic materials include the metals iron, cobalt and nickel
Some alloys like steel are also magnetic
A bar magnet has two ends a north and south pole
Two like poles repel each other while two opposite poles attract