Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth.

New NASA research demonstrates that 540 million years of Earth’s magnetic field changes have corresponded to surface ...

After six years of collecting data, the muon g-2 experiment released its results and could chart a new path for particle physics.

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have proved to be a promising platform for studying exotic quasiparticles, such as excitons. Excitons are bound states that emerge when an electron in a material ...

Static dipole-dipole magnetic interaction is a classic topic discussed in electricity and magnetism text books. Its dynamic version, however, has not been reported in scientific literature. In this ...

A superconducting magnet with active shielding has been proposed for use in a heavy-ion beam rotating gantry in order to decrease weight. The magnet consists of two types of coils, dipole and active ...

But clearly that’s not the case, and somehow matter prevailed, with leftover particles forming atoms, molecules and eventually all the matter we have in existence. And, puzzlingly, there’s not ...

Unlike the Geographic North Pole, the North Magnetic Pole, also known as the Magnetic North Pole, is aligned with the planet’s magnetic field. ... According to Chulliat, the planet’s magnetic field is ...

To study the relationship between these two effects and the occurrence of space hurricanes, we calculated the solar elevation angle and Earth’s dipole tilt angle for each space hurricane event based ...

Like a bar magnet, the Earth has a dipole (two poles) magnetic field. But unlike a bar magnet, the Earth’s field is unstable. It’s generated by the movement of the flowing molten iron at our planet’s ...