Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...

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

A wild idea has been proposed to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation with the help of magnetic fields. A new ...

The Analyzer for Cusp Electrons (ACE) is designed to measure electron activity in the region of the northern magnetospheric ...

Nearly two centuries after Faraday's failed attempts, scientists have demonstrated that Earth's continuous spin can directly ...

With today’s data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow.

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"EZIE is the first mission dedicated exclusively to studying the electrojets," Larry Kepko, an EZIE mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said in a statement. "It does ...

The stronger the magnetic field, the farther apart the line is split ... CubeSats to map Earth's auroral electrojets—intense electric currents that flow high above Earth's polar regions when ...

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 ...

while a magnetic field is not. The presence of an electric field may cause a shock when touching a metal object, such as a fence or car, near a transmission line. The shock is caused by the body of ...