Understanding the Mystique of Magnetic Pole Shifts Magnetic pole shifts, a subject shrouded in both fascination and fear, ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that ...

A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various ...

Researchers at CU Boulder have created a new type of magnetic field sensor using atoms, offering increased precision.

The reversal could actually have a beneficial effect on Earth. The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years ...

Human neuroimaging Researchers in Massachusetts are developing a human brain-scale MPI scanner with a mechanically rotated, permanent magnet-based field-free line. (Courtesy: Lawrence Wald) Magnetic ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not sound waves. When converted to audio signals, though, these strange ...

For the first time astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

“The current behaviour of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before,” William Brown, a global geomagnetic field modeler at the British Geological Survey, said in a statemen ...

A doctor at a local cancer institute hopes to do more clinical studies to see if lab findings apply to actual patients. Read ...