During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...

Imagine waking up one morning to a world where compasses point south instead of north, where auroras shimmer across the ...

Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Experiments suggest an unusual magnetic material could help harness energy from Earth’s rotation. But not everyone is convinced ...

Note that this magnetic field opposes the original change. For example, if a magnet is moved into a coil of wire, the induced magnetic field tends to repel the magnet back out of the coil.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have developed an innovative method to study ultrafast magnetism in materials. They have shown the generation ...

The bumblebee-inspired robot is less than a centimeter wide and can hover, change direction, and hit small targets. Like a ...

The Earth’s magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nano particles and materials. Scientists at Flinders ...

Hubble Space Telescope data show that the time taken for the planet to revolve around its axis is almost half a minute longer ...