Dancing turtles show how animals use magnetic field as a map Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their favourite ...

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

Check your compass again — Earth ... axis meets its surface and is a fixed point on the globe. The magnetic north pole, where compass needles point, is where geomagnetic field lines are ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving ... a fixed point where the Earth’s axis meets its surface. Instead, magnetic north is the changing location where the planet’s ...

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 ...

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

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance ...

The reversal could actually have a beneficial effect on Earth ... by the sun's magnetic field and is measured by how frequent and intense the sunspots visible on the sun's surface are.

Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space-born sensors ...

Check your compass again – Earth ... surface and is a fixed point on the globe. The magnetic north pole, where compass needles point, is about 1,200 miles south and is where geomagnetic field ...

The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic ... are outside Earth's protective atmosphere. As the sun's magnetic field shifts, the "current sheet" — a sprawling surface that ...