Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

Researchers think these samples cooled while in the presence of a magnetic field over millions of years ... of the crust in a short period of time. Using the MIT SuperCloud shared computing ...

Ferrofluid—an extraordinary magnetic liquid—reacts in mesmerizing ways when exposed to a powerful magnet. This visual experiment reveals the strange and fascinating behavior of magnetic fields in ...

Secular variation: The gradual change of the Earth’s magnetic field over time due to fluid motions in the core. Core flow: Movement of the electrically conductive fluid in the Earth's outer core ...

The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon ...

One investigation demonstrated that ultraclean graphene, encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride and few-layer graphite, achieves exceptional magnetic field detection limits over a wide ...

A threatened Australian insect joins the exclusive club of celestial navigators.

Congressional Republicans are laying the groundwork for a tax cliff at the end of President Trump’s term in office. While the ...

NASA budget proposal slashes science funding by 47%, putting more than 40 current and planned missions at risk.

“Pump up the volume” by M|A|R|R|S or Ireland’s 1990 football song “Put ‘em under pressure” are obvious candidates for ...

The brains of humans and other primates are known to execute various sophisticated functions, one of which is the ...