The shift in polarity marks the point at which the sun is halfway through solar maximum, the height of its activity, and the beginning of the shift toward solar minimum. The sun's magnetic field ...

Researchers from the Department of Physics have managed to experimentally develop a new magnetic state: a magneto-ionic vortex or "vortion." The research, published in Nature Communications, allows ...

As the time line at right shows, hundreds of times in our planet's history the polarity of the magnetic shield ensheathing the globe has gone from "normal," our current orientation to the north ...

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in ...

Merging some esoteric physics principles with an advanced instrument creates a magnetic microscope with resolution better ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, scientists from Los Alamos National ...

The use of a ferroelectric tunnel junction to control the spin polarization of adjacent magnetic electrodes promises a new approach to the use of interface effects for low-power-consumption ...

An example is the Faraday effect in which the polarization of light is rotated by an angle proportional to the magnetic-field strength. The challenges of fabricating low-loss waveguides and the ...