Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...

Grounding products claim to help you sleep and improve your health by connecting you to the earth’s magnetic field. Here’s ...

geo’ – that can be translated to ‘Earth’,” explained Neesha Schnepf, a Research Geophysicist at the USGS Geomagnetism Program, “so it’s the electromagnetic field surrounding the ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered that lightning on Earth can knock high-energy electrons out of the inner radiation belt, ...

If it weren’t for the magnetic field that surrounds our planet, blocking cosmic radiation and solar wind, Earth would likely have little atmosphere to speak of. Life (at least of the human variety) ...

Likewise, a wire passing through a magnetic field creates an electric current within the wire. This is the basic principle that allows electric motors and generators to operate. In the Earth (see ...

and I have to wonder whether it might cause unnecessary worry in a person who had bought this unit because of a personal concern for electromagnetic field levels. Fortunately the beep can be ...