While we’re busy faffing about with satnavs and getting lost if our phone battery dies, the rest of the animal […] ...

The movement of the magnetic North Pole is the result of the Earth having an active core. The inner core, starting about 3,200 miles below your feet, is solid and under such immense pressure that it ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

An international team has obtained the first-ever experimental evidence of electrical behavior that mimics a Josephson junction with two superconductors even though only one was present.

A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetism: the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a ...

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This ...

We don't know how magnetic fields in the cosmos formed. Now a new theoretical research tells how the invisible part of our universe could help us find out, suggesting a primordial genesis, even within ...

The magnetized needle of a conventional compass wants to align with Earth’s magnetic field—helpful, unless you’re near the ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have uncovered previously unobserved oscillation ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.