A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Earth's magnetosphere is a guiding beacon for a variety of species capable of sensing its presence. Physicists have now ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

it produces its own magnetic field the magnetic field cannot be turned on and off - it is there all the time Bar magnets and horseshoe magnets are examples of permanent magnets. An iron rod placed ...

In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s ...

An example of the 3.7 billion year old banded ... These results provide the oldest estimate of the strength of Earth’s magnetic field derived from whole rock samples, which provide a more ...

By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that ...

53 along with a survey of earlier work. Figure 3: Examples of biological magnetic fields recorded with atomic magnetometers. Measurements of planetary and interplanetary magnetic fields have been ...

At first glimpse, it may seem like infant stars and supermassive black holes have very little in common. Infant stars, or "protostars," haven't yet gathered enough mass to trigger the nuclear ...

For example, the north polar field of Solar Cycle 24, which ended in December 2019, took nearly five years to reverse, according to the National Solar Observatory. The magnetic field flip is so ...