Tag: magnetic field

No GPS needed -- just use quantum chemistry.

A new image of M87's black hole in polarized light gives us a spectacular view of the powerful spacetime event.

It was a big climate disaster that could have wiped out Neanderthals.

Hopefully the findings translate to humans as well.

If you could go back in time and look at a compass, it would show something very different.

Man's best friend is even more awesome than we knew.

The planet's magnetic north pole is shifting at an alarming rate. Luckily, our magnetic model has received a much needed ...

Humans have a 'sixth sense' after all.

It's larger than the Earth itself.

A pole reversal could fry our electronics.

Magnetic poles will likely remain in place for the foreseeable future.

Turtles have a magnetic-based, extremely accurate GPS which they use to navigate the oceans.

Seeing is believing.

Ah, alcohol. The basis of any sound science.

Each of the two belts surrounds the Earth in a sort of doughnut-shaped formation.

Mars has an invisible magnetic tail and it might contribute to Martian atmospheric loss.

The northern lights might be a brilliant spectacle for some, but they spelled doom for some unfortunate sperm whales.

Geologists, archaeologists, physicists, and ancient potters - working together to solve one of the Earth's greatest mysteries. Who would have ...

Fee-shee go home.

Earth's magnetic past wasn't as simple as today.

Our planet's magnetic field is the first and ultimate shield that guards life from the elements of space, particularly radiation. ...

As soon as the phone starts ringing, these ants have a military-like reaction, forming a circle around the device. But ...

It's no secret that many animals can sense the Earth's magnetic field, but until now, researchers didn't know exactly how ...

The MESSENGER spacecraft spent four years orbiting Mercury, gathering valuable information and sending it back to Earth. But even in ...

Many thousands of miles above our planet's surface, electrons whiz through close to the speed of light. These electrons can ...

In Lewis Caroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871), the sequel to the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ...

As if dolphins weren't special enough, scientists have added another quality to the list: they can sense our planet's magnetic ...

Schematic illustration of Earth's magnetic field. Over the past six months, the Earth's magnetic field - the bubble that protects ...

Every dog owner can attest that canines are remarkable navigators, like some sort of living, breathing compasses. For some time, ...

(c) NASA As the sun approaches the end of its 11-year-long cycle, scientists expect during one flash to change its ...

Using low-frequency laser pulses, a team of researchers has carried out the first measurements on a mineral called herbertsmithite. This ...

Our farthest scout in the Universe, the Voyager-1 probe, has traveled some 18.7 billion kilometers so far and it doesn't ...

Driven by technological demand to breach the gigahertz (10^9 hertz) switching speed limit of today’s magnetic memory and logic devices, a team of ...

Sockeye migrating up the Fraser River (conserv.org) For years scientists have been studying the salmon migration path, which is one ...

Something really bad is going to happen, and the Earth's rotation will shift, rotating the other way, which will cause ...

Photons are slippery fellas. Since they don't have any electrons, they're free to run through any matter, no matter how ...

University of Bristol scientists have developed a magnetic soap, which basically is a common soap only it's filled with iron ...

  Recently, a team of researchers (with the help of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) ...

Every day you hear about locations where the laws of physics appear not to apply or where anomalies take place ...

Those bursts are from magnetars. You may have some idea about what a white dwarf is, or a  black hole ...