scientists at UC Riverside took advantage of this phenomenon by immersing a metal vapor in a magnetic field, and then watched it assemble molten metal droplets into predictably shaped nanoparticles.

NASA's GOLD mission found unexpected, and unexplainable, C-shapes and X-shaped formations in part of Earth's atmosphere ...

the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution. This period, called the ...

The magnetic field also can affect the alignment of matter circling the black hole on its way down, matter that often takes the form of a thick doughnut-shaped ... that they'd observed the mouth ...

It turns out that the sun’s magnetic field can shape and push the dust of a comet ... But Oliver Price, a planetary science Ph.D. student at University College London’s Mullard Space Science ...

This one-way feedback chain allowed them to trace how changes in Earth’s intrinsic magnetic field affected the shape and size of ... Welling, D. T. (2025). Wandering of the auroral oval 41,000 ...

Geophysicist Daniel Lathrop wants, among other things, to use it to predict when the Earth’s magnetic field will next reverse. Over the course of our planet’s history, the field has flipped ...

For desert ants, Earth’s magnetic field isn’t just a compass ... living in more arid deserts like the Sahara, where the shape of landmarks keep changing. “It could be a sandstorm overnight ...

A solution proposed by a team of scientists at the North Carolina State University is a metamaterial that can change shape in response to magnetic fields. This material had to be easily deformable ...

The Earth's magnetic field is essential to life as we know it. But it’s something we can never see – or hear, until now. In a recent study released on Oct. 10 by the European Space Agency ...

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