You may have noticed the large painted numbers (or alphanumeric in some cases) on either end of the runways. Have you ever ...

Why Do Dogs Spin Around Before They Poop? A few theories have circulated about why dogs might circle before pooping, and most ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal ... used this magnetic information as a compass to establish where they were.

One of the most frequent breakdowns of photovoltaic modules, constituting around 10% of the causes of failure ... to look for sudden drops in the magnetic field. The third method uses a simple compass ...

Thanks to a clever experiment, American researchers have shown that two-month-old juveniles weighing around 50 grams can learn and recognize both the Earth's magnetic field at a given location ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

The Schuler period was important for the invention of the gyrocompass: Even Albert Einstein was involved in the development ...

Why would hundreds of people trek overnight through the wilderness with nothing but a compass? Because it ... Guided by the earth’s magnetic field, MacRae ran right into the checkpoint ...

“I didn’t have health insurance,” Compass’ Eugene Litvak said about ... “You have to be creative when you’re getting into this field.” The law prevents brokerages from offering ...

According to estimates, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is generated every day, indicating the need for highly efficient data storage solutions. Researchers have now developed a voltage-controlled ...

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 ...