An international team of scientists have modelled formation and evolution of strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.

A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various ...

What is space weather, what causes it, and how does it affect humans? Physicist Robyn Millan, who co-chaired a recent National Academies decadal report on solar and space physics, answered questions ...

Scientists have unlocked a previously unseen behavior of acoustic waves, opening up new possibilities for cutting-edge ...

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Discover how birds, animals, and possibly humans detect and use Earth's magnetic field for navigation, hunting, and survival.

In a surprising discovery, scientists have detected "chirping" waves some 100,000 miles above Earth, in a region of the ...

The energy resolution limit (ERL) is a mix of parameters representing the economics of a quantum system within a sensor's ...

Chorus waves, quick bursts of energy known to occur relatively close to Earth and around other planets, were found in an ...

The Earth’s magnetic north pole has been slowly inching its way across the Arctic for decades, but recently, its path […] The ...

"The current behavior of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before." For decades, scientists have been tracking the shift in Earth's magnetic north pole away from Canada and ...

Auroral activity is best seen between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time while at a high vantage point away from light pollution, ...