An animation using data from the European Space Agency (ESA) allows you to "listen" to Earth's magnetic field being disrupted ...

How does a compass work in space? From the moon to Venus, here's how a compass would work beyond Earth's magnetic field.

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

Same is true for a classical compass (and a phone compass) though, a large metal object nearby can throw it off, and so can (electro-)magnetic fields. Report comment Reply ...

Spintronics are promising devices that work utilizing not only the charge of electrons, like conventional electronics, but ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

Researchers have discovered why atacamite, a rare mineral found in Chile, spontaneously cools down when exposed to a magnetic ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s nighttime, completely dark, and you don’t have a map, GPS, compass, or ...