Far above the South Atlantic, Earth’s magnetic shield is thinning into a vast, lopsided bruise that now sprawls across an ...

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...

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A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetism: the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a ...

For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to ...

In the blink of an eye in geological time, Canada has lost one north pole but gained another, a new and different claim to be ...

Two German physicists have reimagined how to create powerful and uniform magnetic fields using compact permanent magnets. By overcoming the limitations of the well-known Halbach array, which works ...

Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, planets can end up as a barren wasteland like Mars, or they could indirectly ...

Physicists Prof. Dr. Ingo Rehberg from the University of Bayreuth and Dr. Peter Blümler from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed and experimentally validated an innovative approach for ...

For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding objects from light using so-called metamaterials with extreme and often unrealistic ...