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 ...

The Earth acts like a giant bar magnet, with a magnetic north and ... It is thought that Mars may have once had a protective magnetic field, and that its loss led to the erosion of Mars’ atmosphere.

Nearly two centuries after Faraday's failed attempts, scientists have demonstrated that Earth's continuous spin can directly ...

By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...

Creatures from migratory eels and other fish species to insects to birds tap into the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, sometimes many thousands of miles. But so far, evidence has been scant for any ...

Now, though, a controversial new paper warns that falling space junk could actually weaken Earth’s magnetic field. If that happens, the author of the paper argues that we could see atmospheric ...

Funding sources: $50K (2018-2021) from NSF Statistics Program PI: Tomoko Matsuo (CU-Boulder) Collaborators: University of California at Davis, NOAA NCEI Societal relevance: An accurate modeling of the ...

Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals ... act as a nano-sized magnet that allows the bacteria to passively align with Earth's geomagnetic field lines in both the Northern ...