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

A group of U.S.-based physicists has presented experimental evidence suggesting that electricity can be generated from the ...

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 ...

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Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the sun’s magnetic field. An international research team, including an ...

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

Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

"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 ...

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 ...

High above Earth's poles, intense electrical ... The stronger the magnetic field, the farther apart the line is split. Each of the three EZIE spacecraft will carry an instrument called the ...