The sun is in its solar maximum phase and the Earth is pointed in just the right direction to make the northern lights more ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material.

Chinook salmon start their lives high upstream in the rivers of western North America. The young fish linger in the safety of ...

A controversial new study has claimed that it is possible to generate electricity using the Earth's rotation, its magnetic ...

You may have noticed the large painted numbers (or alphanumeric in some cases) on either end of the runways. Have you ever ...

Scientists have unlocked a way to read magnetic orientation at record-breaking speeds using terahertz radiation. Modern hard ...

It's a fixed point on the Earth. Magnetic north is where your compass points based on the Earth's magnetic field. Disabling True North and using magnetic north should help to calibrate the compass on ...

Contrary to previous assumptions, the Moon's passage through Earth's magnetic field, or "geotail," does not lead to lower plasma densities. Listen to Story Scientists from the Space Physics Laboratory ...

This makes the small Central African country the ideal field site for AfriSAR, a campaign to test technologies that will lead to future space missions to measure forests from space. During two weeks ...

According to estimates, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is generated every day, indicating the need for highly efficient data storage solutions. Researchers have now developed a voltage-controlled ...

A material’s response to an applied magnetic field can be characterized as diamagnetic, paramagnetic, ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic. Four-coordinate cobalt(II) complexes possess high energy ...