Experiments suggest an unusual magnetic material could help harness energy from Earth’s rotation. But not everyone is ...
A wild idea has been proposed to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation with the help of magnetic fields. A new ...
Christopher Chyba held a hollow, dark cylinder made of manganese, zinc, and iron in his Princeton lab, looking skeptically at ...
A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S ...
A new study reports that researchers have successfully used a meticulously designed cylinder to harness electricity as it ...
Quantum-based gravity sensors have probed fundamental physics, and they could transform our understanding of what’s just ...
Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the aurora-causing effects of the solar wind. However, towards the equinox, the two fields ...
The ability to conduct heat is one of the most fundamental properties of matter, crucial for engineering applications. Scientists know well how conventional materials, such as metals and insulators, ...
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The Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE) is designed to measure electron activity in the region of the northern magnetospheric ...
Scientists have unlocked a way to read magnetic orientation at record-breaking speeds using terahertz radiation. Modern hard ...