There's a magnet in a secure room in central Tokyo. It's an electromagnet, the kind that generates a magnetic field when electrical current flows through it. The last time the scientists who operate ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to ...

Planets originate from protoplanetary disks, circulating disks of gas and dust that develop around young stars, a recent ...

Earth’s magnetic field is detected by species across the animal kingdom, but new research suggests that sea turtles may be ...

For the first time astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field ...

A group of researchers in Germany created 3D printed wings inspired by the monarch butterfly. These robotic wings are ...