Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped a little more than 40,000 years ago. We can now experience this epic upheaval, ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

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

This new research provides the first concrete evidence that loggerhead turtles hone this remarkable ability. This superpower ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Some of the most sensitive methods of measuring magnetic fields use interactions of resonant light with atomic vapour. Recent developments in this vibrant field have led to improvements in ...

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

In fact, the discovery actually supports a key part of the theory about how chorus waves work. Using data from the ...

“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 ...

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