In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...
Teams in France are assembling the core of ITER, the gigantic experiment that seeks to harness energy from fusion, similar to ...
NASA launches TRACERS satellites to reveal how solar energy penetrates Earth's magnetic shield and triggers space storms.
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High-throughput hunt finds a new magnetic sensor material
Magnetic sensors quietly underpin everything from smartphone compasses to the stability systems that keep electric vehicles ...
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Pigeons Rely on the Earth’s Magnetic Field to Navigate. Now, Researchers May Have Uncovered How They Do It
In the late 1800s, the French naturalist Camille Viguier proposed an idea that would be dismissed and forgotten for more than ...
By using one physical principle—magnetism—to drive both movement and power, the team created a robot that is more efficient, ...
A team of researchers report a mechanical response across a layered magnetic material tied to changing its electron spin. This response could have important applications in nanodevices requiring ultra ...
Astronomers have captured the first view of polarized light and the magnetic fields that surround Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milly Way. The new EHT ...
The poles of the sun’s magnetic field are fading away. But don’t panic: it’s all part of our host star’s usual 11-year cycle of activity. Over the past couple of years, solar activity—as measured by ...
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