The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other ...

Scientists report that a new class of magnetism, altermagnetism, can increase memory device operation speeds by up to a ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

A decade-long radio mystery has finally been solved: astronomers have linked repeating pulses to a white dwarf and red dwarf ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

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Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

Walking on a hilltop in an all-but-deserted town in Southwest Mississippi, a man searched for lost graves. Most graves in the area are unmarked, so he relies on copper, steel and the Earth's magnetic ...

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

Thomas Stocker, a professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern, was the lead author of a 2024 ...

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of magnetic reconnection, a key physical process that is important across the ...