It shows how iron filings reveal the magnetic field around a magnet, how charged objects create electric fields that can attract materials, and how gravity creates a gravitational field that pulls ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

How it works Artist’s impression of how an ultrafast disruption of superconductivity in a YBCO thin film triggers an abrupt ...

Pushing the limits of how we see and manage magnetic behavior in tiny structures is key to developing future technologies, ...

In 1862, James Clerk Maxwell published his famous Maxwell’s equations. This was at a time when humans were just starting to ...

Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the goopy tears they exude. Sea turtles regularly shed tears as a way to expel ...

The northern lights may be visible as far south as Idaho, New York and South Dakota following strong solar storm activity.

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

This period, called the Laschamps excursion, lasted around 2,000 years. The strength of Earth’s magnetic field dropped to just 10% of its current level, while the magnetic poles wandered far ...