Applying a magnetic field to rod-like viruses induces them to form disks of tunable shape and size
Seeking to mimic self-assembly processes that occur naturally, RIKEN researchers have demonstrated that the self-assembly of ...
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Experiment Generates Current from Earth's Magnetic Field
S cientists have found that it’s possible to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation through its own magnetic field ...
Humans Could Orbit Earth’s Poles for the First Time Today. What Took So Long?
The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...
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Remagnetization Illuminates Tectonic Consolidation of Megacontinents
New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.
This new device is designed to generate electricity from the Earth’s rotation
In a world chasing cleaner energy, a group of physicists may have uncovered a surprising new way to make power: by tapping ...
Earth’s Lost Timeline: Rusty Rocks Reveal Billion-Year-Old Secrets
In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...
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NASA Is Tracking a Massive Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field — And It’s Getting Worse
A vast and evolving anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field, situated above South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, ...
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Proof: Earth's inner core is rapidly changing and now 'rotating backwards'
It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied ...
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Everything Under the Sun
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
Scientists use Earth's rotational energy to generate electricity
The study, published in the journal Physical Review Research, builds on work the team conducted back in 2016 and an idea ...
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This scientist may have just solved how animals can sense direction using Earth’s magnetic field
The development proves one of the leading theories behind animals’ incredible ability to tap into Earth’s magnetic field as a source of locational information. Until now, this sixth sense ...
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Why so many spacecraft carry magnetometers
Many planets and moons, and all stars, generate magnetic fields. Earth’s magnetic field, for example, is created by the movement of molten iron and nickel in the planet’s core and helps to ...